Caption | Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher (front row center) and his Fifth Fleet staff photographed on the hangar deck of USS Enterprise on the occasion of coming aboard, 11 May 1945. Note Commodore Arleigh Burke next to Mitscher. ww2dbase | |||||||||||
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Source | ww2dbaseNational Museum of Naval Aviation WH Balden Collection | |||||||||||
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Photos on Same Day | 11 May 1945 | |||||||||||
Photos at Same Place | Pacific Ocean | |||||||||||
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12 Aug 2015 10:01:33 PM
The reason there are so many gloomy faces in this group might be because they just spent an hour coming aboard by high line from USS English or it might be because they all just watched USS Bunker Hill burn furiously after being struck by special attack aircraft