Caption | TBM Avengers of Torpedo Squadron VT-19 on the flight deck of USS Lexington (Essex-class) being readied for a strike against targets on Formosa (Taiwan), 12 Oct 1944. ww2dbase | |||||||||||
Photographer | Unknown | |||||||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy | |||||||||||
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Photo Size | 1,202 x 700 pixels | |||||||||||
Photos on Same Day | 12 Oct 1944 | |||||||||||
Photos at Same Place | Pacific Ocean | |||||||||||
Added By | David Stubblebine | |||||||||||
Licensing | Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government". Please contact us regarding any inaccuracies with the above information. Thank you. |
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"With Germany arming at breakneck speed, England lost in a pacifist dream, France corrupt and torn by dissension, America remote and indifferent... do you not tremble for your children?"Winston Churchill, 1935
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This photograph appeared in many US newspapers and became reasonably well-known. In the 1970s, this image became the inspiration for a storyboard drawing for a Hollywood movie and although the pilot carrying the charts was seen on film running in the opposite direction, the imagery is immediately recognizable in the X-wing hangar scene in Star Wars (1977).