A Navy seaplane is catapulted off the USS Idaho during a military training exercise, San Pedro vicinity, 1932 Description: A Navy O2U-1 seaplane is catapulted off the desk of the USS Idaho during a military training exercise while a second plane waits for its turn. Date: [March 1932] Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Sailors mount seaplane onto catapult during training exercise aboard the USS West Virginia, 1924-1939 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. Date: [between 1924-1939] Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection