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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-258198

Commander David McCampbell, USN,
(Commander, Air Group Fifteen)

In the cockpit of his F6F "Hellcat" fighter, showing flags denoting 30 Japanese planes he has shot down. The F6F is on board USS Essex (CV-9), 29 October 1944.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 90KB; 575 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 

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    Image Posted 3 December 2008
    Edited and reposted 2 October 2009