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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 82466

Curtiss SOC-3 scout-observation floatplanes
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from USS Honolulu (CL-48)

Fly in a formation, circa 1938-39. They are part of Cruiser Scouting Squadron 9 (VCS-9).
These planes' Bureau #s are (from left to right): unidentified; 1073; 1175 (a SON-1 variant of the SOC-3); and 1087.

Collection of Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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17 April 2001