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Color slide depicting an aircraft approaching the flight deck for landing
Tracer Approach
Color slide depicting an aircraft approaching the flight deck for landing
Color slide depicting an aircraft approaching the flight deck for landing

Tracer Approach

Object NameTransparency, Slide
Historic Owner
Association
DateDecember 1967
PeriodCold War; Vietnam War
Mediumcardboard, film
ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts
Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of RD2 Fred Lugar. P2017.02.279
Object numberP2017.02.279
DescriptionSlide, Color; Horizontal image of a Grumman E-1B Tracer about to land on the flight deck of USS Intrepid. The photograph was taken looking down from the island. The landing signal officer platform is on the port side of the ship and there are five arresting wires across the deck. Intrepid’s wake is visible behind the ship and a support ship, possibly a destroyer, is on the left. 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 “14” 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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