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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-688 (Color)

USS Wasp (CV-7)

Lieutenant David McCampbell, USN, Landing Signal Officer, bringing in planes, circa late 1941 or early 1942. Behind him is George E. "Doc" Savage, USN, Assistant Landing Signal Officer. In catwalk, foreground, are Len Ford (an enlisted man), USN, and Lieutenant Hawley Russell, USN.
Note F4F "Wildcats" in background, overhead.

Caption information provided by Captain David McCampbell, USN (Retired) in 1982.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 53KB; 740 x 590 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 

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    Image Posted 3 December 2008
    Edited and reposted 2 October 2009