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Summary
| Description | U.S. Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastator aircraft (BuNo 0339) of torpedo squadron VT-3 at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California (USA), 22 August 1940. It is painted in McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 8. This aircraft was lost at the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, while serving with VT-2 on the USS Lexington (CV-2). |
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| Source | U.S. Naval History Center photo No. NH 96165 |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
| Other versions | caption bar cropped |
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