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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-1022364

USS Currituck (AV-7)
(upper), and
USS Tangier (AV-8) (lower)

Moored at Morotai in October 1944, while supporting seaplane operations there in connection with the Leyte invasion.
Note aircraft rescue boats tied up alongside Tangier, and OS2U floatplanes on both ships' seaplane decks.

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

Online Image: 182KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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4 January 2001