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19-N-26302 USS Curtiss (AV-4)

Photo #: 19-N-26302 USS Curtiss (AV-4)
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Title: USS Curtiss (AV-4)
Description: An officer and crewman with the wreckage of a Japanese Navy type 99 carrier bomber (Val) that crashed into the ship's forward crane, on the starboard side of the Boat Deck atop the hangar, during the Pearl Harbor raid, 7 December 1941. This shows the tail of the aircraft, resting atop some of Curtiss' boats. It was plane # A1-225, from the carrier Akagi. Photographed on the ship's Boat Deck, 7 December 1941. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: 19-N-26302
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