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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-445593

USS Boxer (CV-21) Hangar Deck Fire, 5 August 1952


Ordnancemen strip live 20mm ammunition from a damaged F9F "Panther" fighter, while firefighters bring the blaze under control. Boxer was then operating off Korea.

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

Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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16 November 1999