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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-15825 (Color)

USS Mobile (CL-63)

View on the ship's fantail, looking across her open aircraft hangar hatch toward the starboard quarter, during the October 1943 raid on Marcus Island. Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplanes are on her catapults. The plane on the starboard catapult has a small bomb under its wing.
USS Yorktown (CV-10) is in the center distance.
Photographed by Photographer's Mate Alphonso Ianelli.

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

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4 November 2002