Keywords: OS2U on cat of USS Mobile (CL-63) 1943.jpg A U S Navy Vought OS2U Kingfisher on board the Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Mobile CL-63 enroute to Marcus Island in August 1943 Mobile was assigned to Take Force 15 centered around the aircraft carriers USS Essex CV-9 USS Yorktown CV-10 and USS Independence CVL-22 which attacked Marcus Island on 31 August Also part of TF 15 were the battleship Indiana the cruisers Nashville and Mobile and the destroyers La Valette Stevens Ringgold Schroeder Sigsbee Thatcher Harrison John Rodgers McKee Dashiell Halford and the oiler Guadeloupe Note the ships on the horizon Nashville on the left Indiana in the center and Essex or Yorktown on the right 520886 1943-08 U S Navy photo 80-G-470528 Cropped version of File Sunday services conducted by Lt James W Kelly CHC on board the USS Mobile CL-63 enroute for raid on Marcus - NARA - 520886 tif PD-USGov-Military-Navy Vought OS2U Kingfisher USS Mobile CL-63 Catapults ship |