SB2C approaching USS Wasp (CV-18) c1944
A U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-81 Hell Razors passes over the fantail of the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) on approach for recovery, in late 1944 or early 1945.
- Date
- 1944–1945
- Photographer / author
- U.S. Navy
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 5,245 × 3,392 pixels
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