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A Navy seaplane is catapulted off the USS Idaho during a military training exercise, San Pedro vicinity, 1932

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Title: A Navy seaplane is catapulted off the USS Idaho during a military training exercise, San Pedro vicinity, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: [March 1932]
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.
A Navy O2U-1 seaplane is catapulted off the desk of the USS Idaho during a military training exercise while a second plane waits for its turn.
This photograph appears with the article "The Eyes of the Fleet." Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 1932: pg K3.
Text from negative sleeve: United States Navy, Ships, Idaho
Text from newspaper caption: Catapulting a spotting plane from the U.S.S. Idaho
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4199
ark:/21198/zz002cpz5q
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Battleships--American--California--Los Angeles
Military training--California--San Pedro
Vought O2U-1 Corsair (seaplane)
United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet
Idaho (Battleship : BB-42)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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