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Plane guard
Carrier escort for recovering aircrew / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A plane guard is a warship (commonly a destroyer or frigate) or helicopter tasked to recover the aircrew of planes or helicopters which ditch or crash in the water during aircraft carrier flight operations.
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