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80-CF-5485-2 USS Yorktown (CV-5)

Photo #: 80-CF-5485-2 USS Yorktown (CV-5)
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Title: USS Yorktown (CV-5)
Description: Flight deck scene, during a lull in air operations while participating in Fleet Problem XX, February 1939. Planes are Grumman F2F-1 fighters, of Fighting Squadron Five (VF-5). That in the center, coded 5-F-2, is Bureau # 9664. Note gun cameras mounted atop the planes' upper wings; signal flags flying; details of the ship's island; and large Y painted on her stack for identification purposes. Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-CF-5485-2
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