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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97370

USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116)


Underway on 6 August 1952, while en route to the Far East for her third, and final, Korean War deployment.
Seven F4U "Corsair" fighter bombers are spotted on the forward end of her flight deck. The "LD" painted on their vertical stabilizers shows that they belong to Marine Fighter Squadron 212 (VMF-212).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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9 October 2000