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Description A U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1D Corsair of Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-511 attached to Marine Carrier Air Group 1 (MCVG-1) is on the deck of the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Block Island (CVE-106) preparing to launch. MCVG-1 was the first all-Marine carrier air group in the Second World War.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.7161.004
Author Pfc. E. Powers, USMC

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5 February 1945

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