Photo #: 80-G-K-1948 (Color) USS Quincy (CA-71) Two Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplanes warming up on the cruiser's fantail prior to catapult launching, probably at the time of the Invasion of Southern France, August 1944. Note barrels of Quincy's after eight-inch guns in the foreground, hangar hatch cover and twin aircraft cranes at the ship's stern. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 525 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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7 November 2000