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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-2203

USS Cowell
(DD-547)

Returns a pilot to his aircraft carrier, after rescuing him during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Photo is dated 28 October 1944, a few days after the battle.
The carrier may be USS Intrepid (CV-11).

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

Online Image: 105KB; 595 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

Note:
Though this was originally a color image, the original "Aero Kodacolor" transparency has lost all colors but red, and can now only be reproduced in monochrome.
For an example of this situation, which is typical of this film type, see Aero-Kodacolor Transparency 80-G-K-1560.

 

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29 March 2004