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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-55338

Wake Island raid
, 5-6 October 1943

A Curtiss SOC "Seagull" scout-observation aircraft is lowered onto the port catapult of USS Minneapolis (CA-36), after it returned from spotting gunfire during the 5 October bombardment.

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

Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 555 pixels

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16 April 2001