File:SOC is lowered on cat of USS Minneapolis (CA-36) 1943.jpg

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A U.S. Navy Curtiss SOC Seagull scout-observation aircraft is lowered onto the port catapult of the heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA-36), after it returned from spotting gunfire during the 5 October bombardment of Wake Island.

Note the message capsule that has just been tossed out by the plane's observer.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-55338, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
Author U.S. Navy

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