5,173 items in this album on 259 pages.
![F4U-1A Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-212 at Barakoma Airfield, Vella Lavella, Solomons, Nov 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_5474205ded37b.jpg) | ![F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft on the flight deck of USS Saratoga, Nov 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_saratoga51.jpg) | ![F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-1 hangs by the barrier cables in the elevator well of Escort Carrier USS Barnes, Nov 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_50f8d2a70e794.jpg) | ![F6F-3 Hellcat, TBF-1 Avenger, and SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft aboard USS Saratoga in the Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_saratoga49.jpg) |
F4U-1A Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-212 at Barakoma Airfield, Vella Lavella, Solomons, Nov 1943 | F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft on the flight deck of USS Saratoga, Nov 1943 | F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-1 hangs by the barrier cables in the elevator well of Escort Carrier USS Barnes, Nov 1943 | F6F-3 Hellcat, TBF-1 Avenger, and SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft aboard USS Saratoga in the Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943 |
![F6F-3 Hellcats preparing for launch from USS Saratoga for strikes against Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, mid Nov 1943.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_55c454ef84761.jpg) | ![German pilot Major Günther Rall being congratulated as he exited his Bf 109 fighter after scoring his 250th kill, Nov 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_air_me109_56.jpg) | ![Lexington pilots celebrated a successful attack on the Marshall Islands, Nov 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_battle_marshall1.jpg) | ![LtCdr Edward Steichen with his camera on an island catwalk above the flight deck of the USS Lexington (Essex-class), Nov 1943, probably off Hawaii. Note F6F Hellcats on the flight deck.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_lexingtonessex2.jpg) |
F6F-3 Hellcats preparing for launch from USS Saratoga for strikes against Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, mid Nov 1943. | German pilot Major Günther Rall being congratulated as he exited his Bf 109 fighter after scoring his 250th kill, Nov 1943 | Lexington pilots celebrated a successful attack on the Marshall Islands, Nov 1943 | LtCdr Edward Steichen with his camera on an island catwalk above the flight deck of the USS Lexington (Essex-class), Nov 1943, probably off Hawaii. Note F6F Hellcats on the flight deck. |
![PB2Y-3 Coronado sometime after Sep 1943, location unknown. Note the unusual Navy practice of painting the airplane’s Bureau of Aeronautics serial number (BuNo) on the tail similar to the Army practice.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_582ff47349dc8.jpg) | ![PBY-5A Catalina of Patrol Squadron VP-63 at Pembroke Dock, South Wales, United Kingdom, late 1943. Note backward firing anti-submarine rockets, part of their new Magnetic Anomaly Detection warfare.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_582ff84eb2d9c.jpg) | ![Prototype V3 of Ta 154 Moskito night fighter, circa late-1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_air_ta154_6.jpg) | ![Sailors gathered on Cowpens](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_cowpens10.jpg) |
PB2Y-3 Coronado sometime after Sep 1943, location unknown. Note the unusual Navy practice of painting the airplane’s Bureau of Aeronautics serial number (BuNo) on the tail similar to the Army practice. | PBY-5A Catalina of Patrol Squadron VP-63 at Pembroke Dock, South Wales, United Kingdom, late 1943. Note backward firing anti-submarine rockets, part of their new Magnetic Anomaly Detection warfare. | Prototype V3 of Ta 154 Moskito night fighter, circa late-1943 | Sailors gathered on Cowpens' flight deck, Atlantic Ocean, Jul-Aug 1943; note red lines on side of the SBD Dauntless wing roundel, which was used only between 29 Jun 1943 and 14 Aug 1943 |
![TBF Avenger running up its engines before launching from escort carrier USS Santee in the Atlantic, Nov 1943. Note the catapult bridle attached to the landing gear.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_5d8af0058d63f.jpg) | ![TBF Avengers on the ramp at Kahului Naval Air Station on Maui, Hawaii, shortly after the station opened, Nov 1943.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_5deefcc1a3fd8.jpg) | ![TBF-1 Avengers returning to USS Lexington (Essex-class) during the Gilberts campaign, Nov 1943.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_584b951a6aa63.jpg) | ![TBM-1C Avengers over Makin Island (now Butaritari Island), in the Gilbert Islands following a bombing raid, Nov 1943.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_5104d51a3426d.jpg) |
TBF Avenger running up its engines before launching from escort carrier USS Santee in the Atlantic, Nov 1943. Note the catapult bridle attached to the landing gear. | TBF Avengers on the ramp at Kahului Naval Air Station on Maui, Hawaii, shortly after the station opened, Nov 1943. | TBF-1 Avengers returning to USS Lexington (Essex-class) during the Gilberts campaign, Nov 1943. | TBM-1C Avengers over Makin Island (now Butaritari Island), in the Gilbert Islands following a bombing raid, Nov 1943. |
![US Army troops looking at a wrecked H8K flying boat, Makin, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_air_h8k_9.jpg) | ![US Navy sailor performing routine maintenance on a PV-1 Ventura aircraft of squadron VB-141 at Hato Field, Curaçao, Netherlands West Indies, Nov 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_air_ventura20.jpg) | ![USAAF P-38J Lightning aircraft in flight, late 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_air_lightning21.jpg) | ![View of USS Saratoga](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_saratoga47.jpg) |
US Army troops looking at a wrecked H8K flying boat, Makin, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943 | US Navy sailor performing routine maintenance on a PV-1 Ventura aircraft of squadron VB-141 at Hato Field, Curaçao, Netherlands West Indies, Nov 1943 | USAAF P-38J Lightning aircraft in flight, late 1943 | View of USS Saratoga's superstructure from a descended elevator, Nov 1943 |
5,173 items in this album on 259 pages.