TBM Avengers of Torpedo Squadron VT-19 on the flight deck of USS Lexington (Essex-class) being readied for a strike against targets on Formosa (Taiwan), 12 Oct 1944. [Colorized by WW2DB]

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Caption     TBM Avengers of Torpedo Squadron VT-19 on the flight deck of USS Lexington (Essex-class) being readied for a strike against targets on Formosa (Taiwan), 12 Oct 1944. [Colorized by WW2DB] ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Pacific Ocean
Date 12 Oct 1944
Photographer    Unknown
Colorization Note   This photograph was originally a black and white photograph; the colorized version presented here was a derivative work by WW2DB. The colors used in this version were speculative, and could be significantly different from the real colors.

Processed using Adobe Photoshop Image Processor, with default neural filter, selecting "None" as the profile.

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Colorized Date 24 Feb 2023
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Navy
 
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Photos on Same Day 12 Oct 1944
 
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Licensing  Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government".

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Added By David Stubblebine
Photo Size 1,202 x 700 pixels



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1. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
18 Jan 2023 12:54:55 PM

This photograph appeared in many US newspapers and became reasonably well-known. In the 1970s, this image became the inspiration for a storyboard drawing for a Hollywood movie and although the pilot carrying the charts was seen on film running in the opposite direction, the imagery is immediately recognizable in the X-wing hangar scene in Star Wars (1977).

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