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Personnel being taken aboard the Independence-class carrier USS Langley by high wire while underway off Okinawa, Japan, Mar 1945.

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Caption     Personnel being taken aboard the Independence-class carrier USS Langley by high wire while underway off Okinawa, Japan, Mar 1945. ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Pacific Ocean
Date  Mar 1945
Photographer    Unknown
 
Source Information
Source    ww2dbaseNational Museum of Naval Aviation RL Lawson Collection
 
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Added By David Stubblebine
Photo Size 1,920 x 1,568 pixels



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