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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-15300 (Color)

USS Saratoga (CV-3)

Grumman F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighters on the flight deck, as a TBM torpedo plane approaches to land, circa 1943-44.
Photographed by Commander Edward Steichen, USNR.
Note open elevator well in the foreground and flight deck crewmen chocking wheels of the F6Fs.

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

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 510 pixels

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28 February 2000