File:USS Langley (AV-3) is torpedoed south of Java on 27 February 1942.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionUSS Langley (AV-3) is torpedoed south of Java on 27 February 1942.jpg |
English: The U.S. seaplane tender USS Langley (AV-3) is torpedoed following fatal bomb damage from Japanese dive bombers, south of Java, 27 February 1942. The photo was taken from the destroyer USS Whipple (DD-217). |
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Source | U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News May 1981 [1]; USN photo available at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, photo 1998.409.075 [2]; Official U.S. Navy photo NH 92475 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command |
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current | 13:47, 7 August 2015 | ![]() | 5,659 × 4,301 (6.69 MB) | Cobatfor (talk | contribs) | NHHC photo |
19:32, 29 April 2009 | ![]() | 2,115 × 1,594 (207 KB) | Cobatfor (talk | contribs) | Original USN photo | |
23:24, 18 April 2008 | ![]() | 304 × 207 (17 KB) | Cobatfor (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description=Low quality photo of a near miss of a Japanese bomb dropped on the U.S. seaplane tender ''USS Langley (AV-3)'' of Java, Netherlands East Indies, on 27 February 1942. The former first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier was sunk that day. |
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