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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-439904

USS Philippine Sea (CV-47)


Ordnancemen attach 250-pound bombs to the wing of a Vought F4U-4B "Corsair", during operations off the Korean coast, 21 May 1951.
Note use of the bomb rack and plane's flap hinge as foot stands.
Plane in the right background is an Attack Squadron 65 (VA-65) AD-2 "Skyraider" (Bureau Number 122318), with Landing Signal Officer stripes on its tail.

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

Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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2 December 1999