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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 53593

USS Hovey
(DD-208)

Stands by while a launch assists in recovering a ditched Grumman F3F fighter, 7 February 1938.
The plane, marked "3-F-12", belonged to Fighting Squadron Three, based on USS Saratoga (CV-3).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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20 September 2004