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Photo #: 80-G-66074

Lieutenant Commander Lance E. Massey, USN,
Commanding Officer, Torpedo Squadron Three (VT-3)

Seated in his Douglas TBD-1 "Devastator" torpedo plane, at Naval Air Station Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, 24 May 1942.
Massey was killed in action on 4 June 1942, while leading VT-3 in an attack on the Japanese carrier force during the Battle of Midway.
Note "Victory" flag marking on the plane, representing the sinking of a Japanese ship during the Marshall Islands Raid, 1 February 1942, when he was Executive Officer of Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6) on USS Enterprise (CV-6).

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

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