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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96164 Douglas TBD-1 torpedo Plane (Bureau # 0339), of Torpedo Squadron Three (VT-3) At Naval Air Station, North Island, California, 22 August 1940. It is painted in McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 8. Note .30 caliber machinegun in the plane's after cockpit. Original side markings, "3-T-?" can be faintly seen on the after fuselage through the badly weathered paint job. This aircraft was lost at the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, while serving with Torpedo Squadron Two on USS Lexington (CV-2). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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13 February 2001