Photo #: 80-G-K-15290 (Color) USS Lexington (CV-16) Aircraft return to the carrier during the Gilberts operation, November 1943. Crewmen in the foreground are sitting on the wing of an SBD-5, as an F6F-3 lands and a TBF-1 taxiies to a parking place on the forward flight deck. Photographed by Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 510 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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22 February 2001