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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-439877

Vought F4U-4B "Corsair" fighter plane


Heads for a crash landing, with smoke pouring out of its starboard side, during operations off Korea, 22 October 1950.
Photographed from USS Philippine Sea (CV-47).
The carrier in the middle distance appears to be USS Valley Forge (CV-45).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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14 October 1999