Keywords: SOC scoutplane is hoisted on board, during recovery by USS Philadelphia (CL-41).jpg Curtiss SOC Seagull scout-observation aircraft is hoisted on board USS Philadelphia CL-41 during the North African operation November 1942 Note crewmen holding lines to steady the plane as the aircraft crane swings it inboard http //www history navy mil/photos/images/g470000/g470060t jpg Naval Historical Center 1942-11 Photographed by Lieutenant Horace Bristol USNR PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Philadelphia CL-41 SOC Seagull floatplane Naval Aviation Photographic Unit Horace Bristol Catapults ship |