Symbolizing the close tie-line of communications between aircraft carrier and plane supplied by radar, this photograph reveals a General Moors AVENGER speeding past an ESSEX-class flattop, with the latter's radar antennae outlined against the sky.

Symbolizing the close tie-line of communications between aircraft carrier and plane supplied by radar, this photograph reveals a General Moors AVENGER speeding past an ESSEX-class flattop, with the latter's radar antennae outlined against the sky.

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U.S. Navy

Unidentified

Maker

Symbolizing the close tie-line of communications between aircraft carrier and plane supplied by radar, this photograph reveals a General Moors AVENGER speeding past an ESSEX-class flattop, with the latter's radar antennae outlined against the sky.

From RADAR: SILENT WEAPON OF WORLD WAR 2


August 14, 1945
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions [verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
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