[Lookout watching skies, USS Essex]

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Title

[Lookout watching skies, USS Essex]

Description

Photograph of a lookout watching the skies, USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1943-1945.

Inscription on verso: "Essex / Ships lookouts were sometimes better than the radar."

Caption on album page: "Essex lookout."

Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J. Madden's service with the U.S. Navy during World War II, circa 1940-1945.

Date

1943-1945 circa

Extent

1 photograph : print, black and white ; 8 x 10 in

Language

Bibliographic Citation

The Paul J. Madden World War II Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

2023-08-10-A_image_270