202 items in this album on 11 pages.
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Damaged tail plane of an F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron VF-20 on the hangar deck of USS Enterprise off the Philippines, 19 Oct 1944. Note the solid castor type tail wheel necessary for carrier operations. | Activity continues on the flight deck of USS Essex as a crashed Japanese airplane burns off the starboard bow, 24 Oct 1944 off Luzon in the Philippines. Note Number 1 5-inch/38 caliber gun mount at right. | Major fires on the fantail of USS Belleau Wood were finally extinguished about three hours after being struck by a special attack aircraft, off the Philippine Islands, 30 Oct 1944 | Helldiver aircraft of USS Hancock in flight, Nov 1944 |
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Intrepid in the Philippine Sea, Nov 1944, with F6F Hellcat fighters on her flight deck | TBM-1C Avengers, SB2C Helldivers, and F6F-5 Hellcats of Air Group 20 are spotted on the forward flight deck of the Fleet Carrier USS Enterprise, Aug-Nov 1944. Note 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns. | F6F Hellcat aircraft preparing for takeoff from Ticonderoga for strikes in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, 5 or 6 Nov 1944; note two leading planes were F6F-5N nightfighters with wing-mounted radar | USS Shamrock Bay underway, 10 Nov 1944 |
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F6F-5N Hellcat night fighter with Night Fighting Squadron VFN-42 crashed against the island and Number 3 stack of Light Carrier USS Bataan off Hawaii, 21 Nov 1944. Note the array of radio and radar antennae. | Monterey at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 24 Nov 1944 | Damage control parties trying to bring fires under control on the hangar deck of USS Intrepid following the crash of a Japanese special attack aircraft off the Philippines, 25 Nov 1944 | Damage control parties trying to bring fires under control on the hangar deck of USS Intrepid following the crash of a Japanese special attack aircraft off the Philippines, 25 Nov 1944 |
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TBM-1C Avengers, F6F Hellcats, and SB2C Helldivers of Navy Carrier Air Group 18 from USS Intrepid at Peleliu, Nov 27, 1944. | Four Essex-class carriers at anchor at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, about 1600 on 2 Dec 1944; L to R: Wasp, Yorktown, Hornet, Hancock; viewed from Ticonderoga with sight of her F6F-5 Hellcat fighters | USS Wasp launching aircraft to search for survivors following Typhoon Cobra, 23 Dec 1944 | USS Wasp's No. 3 center line elevator lowering an aircraft below the flight deck, 24 Dec 1944 |
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A crane hoists an F6F Hellcat after it nosed all the way over aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. | A damaged F6F Hellcat being hoisted by a crane from the training aircraft carrier USS Sable to a waiting barge on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. | A Grumman F6F Hellcat with one wheel in the catwalks aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. Note the severely bent propeller blades. | After an attempted landing on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable, an F6F Hellcat barely hangs onto the catwalks. Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. |
202 items in this album on 11 pages.