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Two aviation ordnancemen install bomb racks on an A-7E Corsair II aircraft parked on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41)

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Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Paul Soutar

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05/09/1984
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label_outline Explore Ph 1 Paul Soutar, Uss Midway, Aircraft Carrier Uss

A Light Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 63 (VFP-63) RF-8A Crusader aircraft approaches for a landing aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41)

Aviation ordnancemen load Mark 82 500-pound retarded delivery bombs onto the wing pylon of an A-6E Intruder aircraft aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

Ordnancemen use an HLU-196 bomb hoist to raise a Mark 56 mine onto the wing of an S-3A Viking aircraft from Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) during exercises off the coast of North Carolina

A landing signal officer and his assistant aboard the aircraft carrier USS F. KENNEDY (CV-67) stand ready with their cut light/waveoff light pickle switches as they monitor the approach of an incoming aircraft during FLEET EX 1-90

Fire fighters stand by in a crash vehicle as an A-6E Intruder aircraft is catapulted from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41)

Two F-4 Phantom II aircraft are prepared for takeoff on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41)

Ordnancemen load an AIM-54A Phoenix missile onto an F-14A Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron 142 (VF-142) on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

An aviation ordnancemen places 20 mm machine gun ammunition in load tray of a linkless ammunition loading system (LALS) in the weapons spaces aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

Aviation ordnancemen load Mark 82 500-pound bombs onto an A-6E Intruder aircraft aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68). The ship is operating off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon

Aviation ordnancemen use a battery-electric forklift truck to position a pallet of general purpose bombs in an elevator aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69)

Ordnancemen aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) transport AIM-7 Sparrow missiles on the flight deck. Behind them is an EA-6B Prowler aircraft from Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 140 (VAQ-140)

Aviation Ordnancemen load Rockeye cluster bombs on to the wing of an F/A-18 "Hornet". The men are stationed on board the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71), which is deployed to the Adriatic in support of NATO-led Operation Allied Force. (Duplicate image, see also DD-SD-00-02619 or search 990412-N-6240R-006)

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aviation ordnancemen two aviation ordnancemen bomb racks bomb racks corsair aircraft flight deck carrier uss uss midway aircraft carrier a 7 e corsair ii high resolution a 7 e corsair ii aircraft aircraft carrier uss ph 1 paul soutar aircraft carrier deck us national archives