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80-G-7744 USS Enterprise (CV-6)

Photo #: 80-G-7744 USS Enterprise (CV-6)
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Description: Lieutenant Commander Eugene E. Lindsey's Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo bomber (Bureau # 0370) sinking astern of the carrier after a deck landing accident on 28 May 1942. Plane guard destroyer, USS Monaghan (DD-354) is in the left background. Enterprise was then en route to the Midway area. LCdr. Lindsey, Commanding Officer of Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), was flying out with the rest of the air group to join the ship when the crash took place. He, and the other members of the plane's crew, were rescued by Monaghan. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-7744
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