Sailors mount seaplane onto catapult during training exercise aboard the USS West Virginia, 1924-1939

Item Overview

Title

Sailors mount seaplane onto catapult during training exercise aboard the USS West Virginia, 1924-1939

Date Created

[between 1924-1939]

Date

1924/1939

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph is similar to one captioned “One of the U.S.S. West Virginia’s huge sea planes being catapulted from the ship’s deck, to do scout work preparatory to ‘the big battle,’” Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 1926: A1.
Sailors mount a Navy seaplane onto a catapult to launch to during training exercises aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia.
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times articles, “When the Navy’s Fleet of Wasps Takes to the Air, Fleet’s Planes Prove Worth In Test, Flaming Streaks of Death Dart From Sizes to Drop Destruction on War Craft of ‘Enemy’ in Tactical Maneuvers,” 15 Nov. 1926: A1, and “Dreadnaughts Hurl Hail of Steel in War Tests, Conditions Similar to Jellicoe’s Famous Engagement Met by Navy in Spectacular Practice,” 3 Jun. 1926: A1. Both articles are by the same reporter with the dateline “At Sea, Aboard U.S.S. West Virginia” possibly he was aboard for a lengthy trip.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: United States Navy, Ships, West Virginia
Handwritten on negative: Plane on West Virginia USS

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

West Virginia (Battleship : BB-48)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Military training--United States
Seaplanes-- American--United States
Vought O2U-1 Corsair (seaplane)
Battleships--American--United States