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80-G-469319 USS Hornet (CV-12)

Photo #: 80-G-469319 USS Hornet (CV-12)
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Title: USS Hornet (CV-12)
Description: Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldiver aircraft bank over the carrier before landing, following strikes on Japanese shipping in the China Sea, circa mid-January 1945. Photographed by Lieutenant Commander Charles Kerlee, USNR. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-469319
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