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English: The U.S. Navy Landing Signal Officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), Lt. Richard (Dick) C. Tripp, with a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat landing. Note that he is wearing tennis shoes and floral pattern shorts! Tripp directed more than 10,000 carrier deck landings from 1943 to 1945. |
| Date | circa 1944 |
| Source | scan from Robert L. Lawson (ed.): The History of US Naval Air Power. The Military Press, New York (USA), 1985. ISBN 0-517-414813, p. 87. US Navy cited as source. |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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