Photo #: NH 97441
USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39)
Members of the carrier's V-2 Division rigging arresting gear
on the flight deck, circa 1962.
The caption released with this photo on 24 July 1962 reads: "Speeding
toward a record-breaker, V-2 divisionmen aboard the USS Lake
Champlain show what it takes to come out on top in barrier
rigging. The 'Champ' crew recently broke the Atlantic
Fleet record for setting the Davis (S2F) barrier with a time
of 59 seconds flat. Having gained momentum, they went on to rig
the conventional (AD) barrier in a pace-setting 53 seconds. When
the men slowed down enough to look in the record books, they
quickly found out that the record they had broken was their own,
set in July of '61."
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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