Keywords: Spitfire before launch from USS Wasp (CV-7) in May 1942.jpg U S Navy launching officer Lieutenant David McCampbell gets the ready signal from the pilot of a British Royal Air Force Spitfire VC just before it took off for Malta from the aircraft carrier USS Wasp CV-7 9 May 1942 This was Wasp´s second Malta reinforcement mission Note deck crewmen holding the plane back A Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat is in the background Official U S Navy photograph http //www history navy mil/photos/images/g00001/g07085t jpg 80-G-7085 National Archives collection http //www history navy mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-m/d-mcpbel htm 1942-05-09 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USS Wasp CV-7 Supermarine Spitfire Mark V Grumman F4F Wildcat World War II forces of Britain in Malta Black and white photographs of Malta David McCampbell 1942 in Malta |