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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-66109

Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplane
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of Observation Squadron One (VO-1)

Being recovered by USS Arizona (BB-39), after a flight in the Hawaiian Operating area on the morning of 6 September 1941.
The pilot, Ensign Lawrence A. Williams, is holding the belt of his rear-seat man, Radioman 3rd Class G.H. Lane, who is hooking up the aircraft to the ship's crane for recovery.

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

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 560 pixels

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26 October 2000