
Caption | San Jacinto underway off the US east coast, 23 Jan 1944, photo 1 of 2; note SNJ training plane on flight deck ww2dbase | |||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives | |||||||
Identification Code | 80-G-212798 | |||||||
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Photos on Same Day | 23 Jan 1944 | |||||||
Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||
Added Date | 22 Mar 2007 | |||||||
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Licensing | Public Domain. According to the US National Archives, as of 21 Jul 2010: |
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23 Jan 2021 06:36:56 PM
San Jacinto (CVL-30) was the last of the 9 light carriers of the Independence class. Commissioned December 15 1943 at Philadelphia, then a month fitting out there. She did some minor workups in Delaware Bay and then departed January 23 1944 (when this picture was taken) for Chesapeake Bay to meet her Air Group and start working flight operations. She would run her first true flight operation on January 24 in Chesapeake Bay. The SNJ was not a part of the ship's Air Group, rather on board here to give the deck crews something to start working with, and was flown off on the 24th.