F9F with runny nose on CV-31 1951
A series of photos showing a landing accident aboard the U.s. navy aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) off Korea in 1951. Upon landing the nose section of a Grumman F9F-2B Panther from Naval Air Reserve Fighter Squadron VF-781 came off the plane an careened into the sea. VF-781 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 102 (CVG-102) aboard the BHR for a deployment to Korea from 10 May to 17 December 1951.
- Date
- 1951
- Photographer / author
- USN
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- image
- Original size
- 938 × 364 pixels
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"F9F with runny nose on CV-31 1951" (1951). USN, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F9F_with_runny_nose_on_CV-31_1951.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 51654.
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