Plane handlers pushing an F6F-5N Hellcat night fighter of Fighting Squadron VF-82 off an elevator and onto the Hangar Deck of USS Bennington, early 1945

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Caption     Plane handlers pushing an F6F-5N Hellcat night fighter of Fighting Squadron VF-82 off an elevator and onto the Hangar Deck of USS Bennington, early 1945 ww2dbase
Date  Mar 1945
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation
 
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1. Mark Lillie says:
30 Jan 2022 10:24:37 AM

My cousin Lt James F Carroll flew with VF82 but was lost Feb 16 45 over Tokyo. a parachute was spotted but the navy learned at the end of the war he did not survive the day in captivity.

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