Color slide depicting aircraft taking off from the flight deck with blue water in the backgroun…

A-1 Skyraider Launch

Object NameTransparency, Slide

Historic Owner Frederick D. Lugar

Association USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11)

DateDecember 1967

PeriodCold War; Vietnam War

Mediumcardboard, film

ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts

Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of RD2 Fred Lugar. P2017.02.268

Object numberP2017.02.268

DescriptionSlide, Color; Horizontal image looking down from the island on a Douglas A-1 Skyraider just after launching off the starboard steam catapult of USS Intrepid. Flight deck personnel in yellow jerseys and aircraft ladders are visble on the port side of the deck. A number, “11” is at the forward end of the deck. The open water is calm and the sky is blue with white clouds.

Slide mount has “Made in U.S.A. U.S. Pat. No. 3,013,354” printed in yellow and “2” and “Dec 67R12” printed in black on one side. “Kodachrome // transparency // processed by Kodak” printed in red on the other side.

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