Image: SOC scoutplane is hoisted on board, during recovery by USS Philadelphia (CL-41)
Description: Curtiss SOC "Seagull" scout-observation aircraft is hoisted on board USS Philadelphia (CL-41), during the North African operation, November 1942. Note crewmen holding lines to steady the plane as the aircraft crane swings it inboard.
Title: SOC scoutplane is hoisted on board, during recovery by USS Philadelphia (CL-41)
Credit: Naval Historical Center
Author: Photographed by Lieutenant Horace Bristol, USNR.
Permission: This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.
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