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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97114

USS Philippine Sea (CV-47)


Lieutenant Zack Taylor gets ready for a reconnaissance flight over enemy territory, while the carrier was operating off Korea in April 1952. His plane is a Grumman F9F-2P photo version of the "Panther" jet fighter.
Note camera window in the plane's nose, and Lt. Taylor's ribbed crash helmet.

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

Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 

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16 November 1999