U.S. Navy carrier operations in WWII showing the Landing Signal Officer, Lt. John W. Clark, USN, of the USS Lexington (CV-16) as he stands by to send a plane on its take-off run, during the Gilberts Operation, early December 1943. Boardman standing behi
Categories: World War II | Ships and Submarines
 
 
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