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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-5702 (Color) USS Hornet (CV-12) View looking aft from the ship's island as she steams with other carriers during a western Pacific gunnery practice session, circa June 1945. Next ship astern is USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31), firing her 5"/38 battery to starboard. Two small aircraft carriers (CVL) are beyond her. Note yellow flight deck markings on Hornet and TBM and SB2C aircraft parked aft. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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27 December 2000