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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-15826 (Color)

USS Mobile (CL-63)

Preparing to launch a Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplane from her port catapult, during the October 1943 raid on Marcus Island.
Note the 40mm twin gun mount in the foreground, with a man in the gun tub holding a red flag.
Photographed by Photographer's Mate Alphonso Ianelli.

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

Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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4 November 2002