Photo #: NH 96995
USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116)
Loading Marine Corps F4U-4B "Corsair" fighters at Naval
Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, for transportation
to Korea, July 1950.
Badoeng Strait carried planes and aircrew of Marine Air
Group 33 as part of the trans-Pacific movement of the First Provisional
Marine Brigade, the initial Marine Corps deployment of the Korean
War. She left San Diego in mid-July and arrived at Kobe, Japan
on 31 July, flying her planes off the following day.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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