One of the deadly aerial torpedoes carried by the U.S. Navy's crack torpedo bomber--the Grumman "AVENGER". The photograph was taken aboard an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific.
- Date
- 1943-01
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 2,130 × 3,000 pixels
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