On board the United States Navy aircraft carrier Wasp (1943) in the North Atlantic.
On board the United States Navy aircraft carrier Wasp (1943) under way in the North Atlantic. The photographer is on the aft end of the island superstructure looking aft showing two Douglas EA-1F Skyraider aircraft of VAW 33 Squadron in the starboard aft deck park with wings folded. The nearest aircraft is serial 131577, code 872 and the furthest is serial 139579, code 873. In the foreground is the tail fin of a Grumman S2-E Tracker aircraft of Carrier Antisubmarine Warfare Air Group 52. A destroyer is following astern. The horizon is not level.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19332 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Wasp (1943) |
| Date made: | September-November 1964 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |