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80-G-439890 General Motors TBM-3E "Avenger"

Photo #: 80-G-439890 General Motors TBM-3E "Avenger"
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Title: General Motors TBM-3E "Avenger"
Description: Photo #: 80-G-439890 General Motors TBM-3E Avenger (Bureau Number 91404) Crashes into the barrier while landing on board USS Philippine Sea (CV-47), during operations in the Korean war zone on 17 January 1951. Note: details of the carrier's island, with a Le Tourneau crane parked nearby; splintered wooden decking below the plane; and hydraulic fluid spilling from the plane's port side landing gear leg (seen in the air just below and in front of the tailplane). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-439890
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