Photo #: NH 97271
USS Essex (CVA-9)
"Loaded Down -- Seaman Leroy Kellam ... weighted down with
belts of 20 millimeter cannon ammunition, hustles up the flight
deck of USS Essex to load a waiting Banshee fighter. These
same shells were spitting death at the Communists in North Korea
a short time after this picture was taken."
Photograph and caption were released by Commander, Naval Forces,
Far East under date of 12 October 1951.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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