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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-13723 (Color)

USS Cowpens (CVL-25)

Ship's Marines line up on the flight deck for physical drill, circa mid-1943.
Planes on the flight deck include F6F, SBD and TBM types.
Note "SK" radar antenna mounted on the stub mast between the stacks and inflatable life belts worn by many of the men on deck.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 150KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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23 October 2000