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"Push Button Flight" - On the deck of the carrier 'Shangri-La', a Navy F6F Hellcat drone plane, its tail mooring still in place, is warmed up and controls given final adjustment prior to being sent into the air - Lt. Cdr. W. G. Maurer, a pilot, mans the controls - Operation Crossroads - July 1946

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