    
Title: USS Langley, October, 1945 Description: USS Langley (CVL-27) at sea in the Atlantic, en route to Europe where it would ferry thousands of troops back to the U.S.; the 11,000-ton carrier, commissioned on August 31, 1943, carried forty-five aircraft and had a complement of 1,569 officers and enlisted men; the Langley was converted from a light cruiser (USS Fargo, CL-85); after her keel was laid in 1942, she was redesigned as a carrier; Date: October 12, 1945 Category: World War II Keywords: aircraft carriers, airplanes, aviation, carriers, Second World War, U.S. Navy, U.S. warships, World War II, WWII Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1980 x 1371 (2.71 MPixels) (1.44) Print Size: 16.8 x 11.6 cm; 6.6 x 4.6 inches File Size: 7.78 MB (8,154,934 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010738 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
