File:SOC-3-landing-1942.jpg

USS Long Island (AVG-1) Lieutenant Commander Lex L. Black, Commanding Officer of squadron VGS-1, makes the ship's 2000th landing, 20 April 1942. He is flying a Curtiss SOC-3A "Seagull" scout-observation aircraft. Note lowered flaps and deployed leading edge slats on the upper wing.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Available here: [1]

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