File:F4F-4 Wildcat of VF-10 aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) on 26 October 1942.jpg

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العربية: مقاتلة تابعة للبحرية الأمريكية من طراز غرومان إف 4 إف وايدكات يقودها الطيار. ليمان فولتون من سرب القتال 10 يستعد للإقلاع من على متن حاملة الطائرات يو إس إس إنتربرايز (سي في-6) قبيل معركة جزر سانتا كروز، في 24 أكتوبر 1942.
English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter piloted by Ens. Lyman Fulton of Fighting Squadron 10 (VF-10) "Grim Reapers" prepares for launch from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) before the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, on 24 October 1942. Note the small bright number "17" on the engine cowling (17th plane of VF-10).
Note: John B. Lundstrom in The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign, page 340, identifies this plane as BuNo 5229.
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Source U.S. Navy photo [1] in: U.S. Naval Aviation News, Spring 2013 [2], p. 19.
Author U.S. Navy

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