United States Navy standard seaplane on all capital ships up to and including the last day of the war in the Pacific. With a total of 1,519 being produced up to 1942 and 100 of those went to the British Royal Navy .This fine specimen is at Battleship Park Mobile,Alabama U.S.A. aboard the USS...
USS Missouri (BB-63)
A Naval Aircraft Factory OS2N-1 Kingfisher floatplane is lowered onto its catapult cradle after a flight, during the ship's shakedown cruise, circa August 1944.
Note Mk.51 director and its associated 40mm quad gun mount at left.
Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplane is catapulted from the cruiser's (USS Quincy (CA-71)) stern, probably at the time of the Invasion of Southern France, August 1944.
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