107 items in this album on 6 pages.
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SBD-3 Dauntless, F4F-4 Wildcat, and TBF-1 Avenger aircraft aboard USS Enterprise, northeast of Nouméa, New Caledonia, 2 May 1943; note USS Washington in background | Many of the design features of the Essex-class can be seen here as the USS Yorktown squeezes through the locks of the Panama Canal, 11 Jul 1943. Notably, the deck-edge aircraft elevator is in the raised position. |
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WAVES Aviation Metalsmiths and Aviation Machinist's Mates working on a SBD Dauntless aircraft, Assembly and Repair Department, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 24 Jul 1943 | A Marine Corps TBM-1C Avenger of the 7th Fleet Command undergoing some maintenance at the Cyclops aerodrome, Hollandia, New Guinea, Jul-Aug 1943. Note the Jeep and the tail of an Army A-24 Banshee painted as a target tug. |
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SBD Dauntless scout bomber in the landing pattern preparing to come aboard USS Essex following the raid on Marcus Island, Pacific Ocean, 31 Aug 1943. | Flight deck crews of USS Saratoga spotting SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers of VB-12 squadron, Oct 1943 |
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Mk 40 gun director seen from the island’s number two quad 40mm gun mount aboard the carrier USS Essex, late 1943. Note SBD Dauntless scout bombers with Bombing Squadron VB-9. | A F6F-3 Hellcat fighter landing on USS Saratoga, Nov 1943; note SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft in foreground |
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F6F-3 Hellcat, TBF-1 Avenger, and SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft aboard USS Saratoga in the Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943 | Sailors gathered on Cowpens' flight deck, Atlantic Ocean, Jul-Aug 1943; note red lines on side of the SBD Dauntless wing roundel, which was used only between 29 Jun 1943 and 14 Aug 1943 |
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View of USS Saratoga's superstructure from a descended elevator, Nov 1943 | SBD Dauntless dive bomber of US Marine Corps VMSB-144 squadron flying over Cape Torokina by Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1 Nov 1943 |
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Busy flight deck of the USS Saratoga, 5 Nov 1943. In the foreground is an SBD Dauntless while F6F-3 Hellcats land astern after a strike against Rabaul in support of Bougainville operations. | Jeep vehicles and SBD Dauntless aircraft aboard an aircraft carrier in the Solomon Islands area, 5 Nov 1943 |
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SBD Dauntless crewman Alva Parker, having suffered neck and shoulder shrapnel wounds over Rabaul, New Britain, being helped from the aircraft after landing on USS Saratoga, 5 Nov 1943 | SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft flying over USS Washington and USS Lexington in the Pacific Ocean en route toward the Gilbert Islands, 12 Nov 1943 |
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US F4U-1 Corsair, US F6F-3 Hellcat, US SBD Dauntless, and New Zealand Kittyhawk Mk. IV aircraft at the Barakoma airfield at Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 10 Dec 1943 | A-24B-5-DT Banshee aircraft (serial number 42-54459) of US 531st Fighter Squadron following a Jeep down the runway on Makin Island, Gilbert Islands, 13 Dec 1943; this was the first A-24B to arrive on Makin |
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A-24A Banshee aircraft (serial number 42-60881) towing a target sleeve, 1944; this was the last A-24A built, designated RA-24A as a target towing aircraft | A-24B Banshee aircraft 'Dry Run' at rest at a Pacific base, 1943-45 |
107 items in this album on 6 pages.