File:Spitfire before launch from USS Wasp (CV-7) in May 1942.jpg

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Description U.S. Navy launching officer, Lieutenant David McCampbell, gets the ready signal from the pilot of a British Royal Air Force "Spitfire" VC, just before it took off for Malta from the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7), 9 May 1942. This was Wasp´s second Malta reinforcement mission. Note deck crewmen holding the plane back. A Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" is in the background.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-7085, National Archives collection [1].
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