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Photo # 80-G-13129:  SOC-3A aircraft parked on USS Long Island's snowy flight deck, January 1942

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Long Island (AVG-1), 1941-1947 --
Aircraft on the Flight Deck, through May 1942


This page features all the views we have of aircraft on USS Long Island's flight deck, taken through May 1942.

For more views of USS Long Island, see:

  • USS Long Island (AVG-1, later ACV-1 and CVE-1).

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: 80-G-413479-A

    Curtiss SOC-3A "Seagull" scout-observation plane
    ,
    of Scouting Squadron 201 (VS-201)

    Parked on the flight deck of USS Long Island (AVG-1), 16 December 1941.
    Note depth bomb carried below the plane's fuselage, and practice bomb rack below the port wing.

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

    Online Image: 39KB; 740 x 535 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-413479-B

    Curtiss SOC-3A "Seagull" scout-observation plane
    ,
    of Scouting Squadron 201 (VS-201)

    Parked on the flight deck of USS Long Island (AVG-1), 16 December 1941.
    Note depth bomb carried below the plane's fuselage, and practice bomb rack below the port wing.

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

    Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-413479-C

    Curtiss SOC-3A "Seagull" scout-observation plane
    ,
    of Scouting Squadron 201 (VS-201)

    Parked on the flight deck of USS Long Island (AVG-1), 16 December 1941.

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

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-13129

    USS Long Island (AVG-1)


    View on the flight deck while operating in the vicinity of Argentia, Newfoundland, January 1942. This was the only time Long Island operated in such northern areas.
    Planes parked on the carrier's snowy flight deck, behind the palisade, are Curtiss SOC-3A "Seagull" types.

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

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 590 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-14256

    USS Long Island (AVG-1)


    Lieutenant Commander Lex L. Black, Commanding Officer of squadron VGS-1, makes the ship's 2000th landing, 20 April 1942. He is flying a Curtiss SOC-3A "Seagull" scout-observation aircraft.
    Note lowered flaps and deployed leading edge slats on the upper wing.

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

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-14521

    USS Long Island (AVG-1)


    Curtiss SOC-3A "Seagull" scout-observation planes, of the carrier's embarked squadron, VGS-1, parked on the flight deck, 10 May 1942.

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

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 595 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-14549

    USS Long Island (AVG-1)


    A Curtiss SOC-3A "Seagull" scout-observation plane, of squadron VGS-1, is launched by catapult, 21 May 1942.

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

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    Note: In addition to the photographs referenced above, we have another view that is related to flight operations on USS Long Island, though it does not actually show that ship. This is Photo # 80-G-64755, which shows the wreckage of a plane that crashed while attempting to land on Long Island during Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) carrier qualifications, 12 November 1941.

    For more views of USS Long Island, see:

  • USS Long Island (AVG-1, later ACV-1 and CVE-1).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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