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Photo #: 80-G-30362

North Africa Operation, November 1942


Testing machine guns of Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" fighters aboard USS Ranger (CV-4), while en route from the U.S. to North African waters, circa early November 1942.
Note the special markings used during this operation, with a yellow ring painted around the national insignia on aircraft fuselages.

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

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18 January 2001