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Crews move to secure an FM-2 Wildcat after a hard landing on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. | Deck crew signals the pilot of an FM-2 Wildcat aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. |
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Decoy Japanese B6N, Ki-27, and other aircraft emitting false smoke during US air raid, Koshun Airfield, southern Taiwan, date unknown | Destroyer tender Markab with destroyers Longshaw, Preston, Porterfield, and Cassin Young, circa early 1945 |
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Early CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 long wheel-base chassis truck fitted with a Mobile Dental unit for the 47th Armd Medical Battalion, US 1st Armored Division, probably in Italy, 1944-1945 | Eighteen TBM Avengers in flight, 1943-45. |
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Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-122 traveling at speed, 1944-45. Note Mark XIII aerial torpedoes in their racks have replaced the heavy steel torpedo tubes allowing for Bofors 40mm gun aft and 37mm cannon forward. | Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-130 at cruising speed as seen from PT-143, 1944-45. Note Mark XIII aerial torpedoes, Bofors 40mm gun aft, and 37mm cannon forward on PT-130 and Oerlikon 20mm gun in foreground. |
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Elco 80-foot torpedo boats PT-126 and PT-159 at a floating drydock, 1944-45. Note mottled paint scheme, Mark XIII aerial torpedoes, Bofors 40mm guns aft, and 37mm cannon forward. | Experimental P-38H Lightning aircraft, date unknown |
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F2G-1 Corsair aircraft at rest, 1945; seen in Nov 1945 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News | F4U-1D Corsair fighter with HVAR rockets being tested by Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, California, United States, 1945; seen in 15 Apr 1945 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News |
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F6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair aircraft awaiting service, Air Station Point Mugu, California, United States, circa 1945 | F6F Hellcat coming in for a landing on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. Note the LSO’s “paddles” and the lack of extended tailhook on the Hellcat. |
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F6F Hellcat hung up in the catwalks of the training aircraft carrier USS Sable after a landing mishap on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. | F6F Hellcat lined up for a trap on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. Note the LSO’s “paddles” and the extended tailhook on the Hellcat. |
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F6F-5N Hellcat night fighter of Night Fighter Squadron 90 based on the carrier USS Enterprise, 1945. Note radome on left wing and flame dampeners on exhaust port. | FG-1D Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-323 flying over Okinawa, Japan, 1945 |
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Five African-American US Coast Guardsmen manning a 20-mm Oerlikon AA autocannon aboard a frigate in the southwest Pacific, date unknown. L to R: J Wesley, L Haywood, W Watson, W Morton, O Lane | Fleet carrier USS Intrepid listing due to heavy seas, date and location unknown |
9,499 items in this album on 475 pages.