Pilot in F6F awaits the take-off signal on board the USS Lexington (CV-16).
- Date
- 1943-12-08
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 2,028 × 3,000 pixels
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