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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97350

USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31)


F9F "Panther" jet fighters and F4U "Corsair" fighter bombers on the carrier's hangar deck, during operations off Korea.
Photo is dated 15 November 1952.
The plane in center is an F4U-5, while that at right is an F4U-4.
The F9F-2Ps at left are nicknamed "Life" and "Look", after popular pictorial magazines of the day.

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

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20 September 2000