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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: KN-3632 (Color)

USS Topeka (CLG-8)

Fires a "Terrier" guided-missile on 18 November 1961, during weapons demonstrations for the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson.
Photographed from on board USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63).
Planes preparing for launch on the carrier's flight deck are a F8U "Crusader" jet fighter, at left, and an AD-6 "Skyraider" attack plane (Bureau # 137588), in the lower center.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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6 December 2002