Original caption: "Convoy WS-12: A Vought SB2U <i>Vindicator</i> scout bomber from USS <i>Ranger</i> (CV-4) flies anti-submarine patrol over the convoy, while it was en route to Cape Town, South Africa, 27 November 1941. The convoy appears to be making a formation turn from column to line abreast. Two-stack transports in the first row are <i>USS West Point</i> (AP-23) -- left --; USS <i>Mount Vernon</i> (AP-22) and USS <i>Wakefield</i> (AP-21). Heavy cruisers, on the right side of the first row and middle of the second, are USS <i>Vincennes</i> (CA-44) and USS <i>Quincy</i> (CA-39). Single-stack transports in the second row are USS <i>Leonard Wood</i> (AP-25) and USS <i>Joseph T. Dickman</i> (AP-26)."
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1941-11-27
U.S. Navy Naval History Center <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.history.navy.mil">[1]</a> Photo #: 80-G-464654; also U.S. National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.2152 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://collections.naval.aviation.museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/Display.php?irn=16035034&amp;QueryPage=%2FQuery.php">[2]</a>