Photo #: NH 97618
USS Wright (CVL-49)
Operating on training duty, with six SNJ "Texan" aircraft on deck lined up for takeoff, circa the later 1940s or early 1950s.
The photo's original caption reads "The stage is set for the final scene of Basic Training: the flight students will qualify six carrier landings in SNJ 'Texans' and the curtain will descend on the graduation finale."
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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