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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97286

USS Boxer (CV-21)


"Deck Launch -- Visible rings of vapor encircle a Corsair fighter as it turns up prior to being launched from the USS Boxer for a strike against communist targets in Korea. Hovering to the stern of the aircraft carrier, the every-present helicopter plane guard stands by to assist if any emergency arises."
Photograph and caption were released in Washington, D.C., on 20 July 1951.
Planes are Vought F4U-4s. Helicopter is a Sikorski HO3S.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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5 June 2000