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Sailors mount seaplane onto catapult during training exercise aboard the USS West Virginia, 1924-1939

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Title: Sailors mount seaplane onto catapult during training exercise aboard the USS West Virginia, 1924-1939
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1924-1939]
1924/1939
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph is similar to one captioned “One of the U.S.S. West Virginia’s huge sea planes being catapulted from the ship’s deck, to do scout work preparatory to ‘the big battle,’” Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 1926: A1.
Sailors mount a Navy seaplane onto a catapult to launch to during training exercises aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia.
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times articles, “When the Navy’s Fleet of Wasps Takes to the Air, Fleet’s Planes Prove Worth In Test, Flaming Streaks of Death Dart From Sizes to Drop Destruction on War Craft of ‘Enemy’ in Tactical Maneuvers,” 15 Nov. 1926: A1, and “Dreadnaughts Hurl Hail of Steel in War Tests, Conditions Similar to Jellicoe’s Famous Engagement Met by Navy in Spectacular Practice,” 3 Jun. 1926: A1. Both articles are by the same reporter with the dateline “At Sea, Aboard U.S.S. West Virginia” possibly he was aboard for a lengthy trip.
Text from negative sleeve: United States Navy, Ships, West Virginia
Handwritten on negative: Plane on West Virginia USS
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4065
ark:/21198/zz002cpsj0
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Military training--United States
Seaplanes--American--United States
Vought O2U-1 Corsair (seaplane)
Battleships--American--United States
West Virginia (Battleship : BB-48)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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