USS Oriskany officer puts on his oxygen mask

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02566
Title: USS Oriskany officer puts on his oxygen mask
Description: Original caption: "Fighting the Fire on USS Oriskany - an Oriskany officer puts on his oxygen breathing apparatus in preparation to fight the major fire on the aircraft carrier for three hours." A group of American men stand together, possibly on the deck of a ship. One man in the center puts on a gas mask.
Date: 1962-1968, approximately
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Navy. Fleet, 7th; First aid in illness and injury; Soldiers; Oriskany (Aircraft carrier : CVA 34); Search and rescue operations; Aircraft carriers
Location: South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6297
Size: 20 x 25 cm
Container: B146, F3
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: United States. Navy. Fleet, 7th
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
Copyright Information: These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
Publisher: Archives & Special Collections
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