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80-G-433507 USS Essex (CV-9)

Photo #: 80-G-433507 USS Essex (CV-9)
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Title: USS Essex (CV-9)
Description: Fire on the flight deck near the starboard bow, after a McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee jet fighter crashed into parked aircraft during operations off Korea, 16 September 1951. Photographed from USS Boxer (CV-21), which was steaming ahead of Essex. Note other planes in the area, including a F9F at right, and plane guard destroyers steaming nearby. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-433507
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