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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96986

USS Boxer (CV-21)


U.S. personnel wait to board Boxer at Alameda, California, for a fast trip to Japan, circa 8-14 July 1950. On 14-22 July, the ship carried an emergency shipment of 170 Air Force and Navy aircraft, plus personnel and equipment, to the Korean War zone in a record 8 1/2 day trans-Pacific crossing. Two of the 145 USAF F-51 "Mustang" fighters carried are visible on her flight deck.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

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15 September 1999