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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-450865 Naval Aviators and Motion Picture Actors Standing by a Curtiss F8C-4 aircraft of Fighting Squadron 1-B, at Naval Air Station, North Island, California, 16 September 1931, while filming the movie "Helldivers". Those present are (from left to right): Actor Cliff Edwards; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) John S. Thach, USN; Actor Clark Gable; Actor (and USNR Officer) Wallace Beery; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) H.S. Duckworth, USN, and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) E.P. Southwick, USN. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 131KB; 740 x 595 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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