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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 98517
USS Essex (CVA-9)
Takes spray over the bow while steaming in heavy seas, 12 January
1960.
Note S2F type airplane at the rear of the flight deck, with its
engines turning. Other planes visible, amidships, include AD
and F4D types.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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