File:US carrier task force en route to Wake Island in October 1943.jpg

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Description U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, destroyers, and cruisers of the Pacific fleet en route to raid Wake Island, circa early October 1943. Two Essex-class carriers and two Independence-class light carriers (CVL) are in this formation of Task Force 14.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-473529 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author Photographed by Lieutenant Charles Kerlee, USNR, who was then serving in USS Yorktown (CV-10).

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