F6F_launch_USS_Saratoga_Tarawa_1943.jpg
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Summary
| Description | A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat flown by Commander Joseph C. Clifton prepares to launch from the carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) bound for Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, in late November 1943. Note that the Hellcat s are in various states of changes of the national insignia, which had been ordered three months before. However, in contrast to all other fleet carriers, Saratoga had been active in the Solomons for the most part of 1943 and marking changes were only applied in the field. |
| Date | late November 1943 |
| Source | U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1977.031.085.038 [1] |
| Author | U.S. Navy (This image is part of a photograph album kept by Commander Joseph C. Clifton during 1942-1944, which included service as Commanding Officer of Fighting Squadron (VF) 12 and Commander Air Group (CAG) 12.) |
| Other versions | frame with caption "Tarawa bound" removed |
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