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Deck crews aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable man lines to right an FM-2 Wildcat that had nosed completely over. Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45. Photo 2 of 3.	Deck crews aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable man lines to right an FM-2 Wildcat that had nosed completely over. Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45. Photo 3 of 3.

Deck crews secure a damaged FM-2 Wildcat following a hard landing aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-44.	Female riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California, United States, 1940s

Fire control crews responded to an FM-2 Wildcat that had nosed all the way over on landing aboard training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944.	FM-2 Wildcat nosed all the way over on landing aboard training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944. Note parked TBF-1 Avengers with bent propeller blades. Photo 1 of 2.

Following a nose over upon landing, the propeller and cowling of an FM-2 Wildcat shows the damage aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45.	General George Marshall congratulating Lieutenant General Joseph McNarney after presenting him with the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit, United States, 1944

Group portrait of 246th Platoon of Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, United States, 1944	Hazel Lee sitting in a trainer, United States, 1944

Jackie Cochran with WASP trainees at Avenger Field, Texas, United States, 1943-44.	K-25 power plant and S-50 plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, 1940s

LCVP landing craft from Amphibious Transport Ship USS Hunter Liggett (background) during amphibious training near San Diego, California, United States, circa 1944. Note the LCVP’s unusual raised coxswain podium at the stern	Mark XIII torpedo with a practice warhead and fitted with a tail ring, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, 1944. The tail ring modification was the final alteration that made this a truly dependable weapon.

Michiel Dobervich, Austin Shofner, Melvyn McCoy, Jack Hawkins, and Samuel Grashio, Quantico, Virginia, United States, 1944; seen in 15 Aug 1944 issue of US Marine Corps publication The Leatherneck	Navy Lt CV Timberlake, an LSO on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable sits in his SNJ Texan, Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-44.

New Dodge WC54 3/4-ton field ambulances awaiting embarkation overseas, Detroit, Michigan, United States, 1943-1945	On approach to the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, an SB2U Vindicator shows the LSO “Gear Down, Flaps Down, Hook Down,” 1943-44.

One SNJ Texan and 13 FM-2 Wildcats tied down on the flight deck of training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944.	Publicity photo of workers at the CalShip yard with connections to Major League Baseball, circa 1944, Los Angeles, California, United States. [See Comment below]