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A PV-1 Ventura of Bombing Squadron VB-139 after a belly landing on Attu Island, Alaska, 18 May 1944. This aircraft’s hydraulics were shot out by a Japanese gunboat off the Kamchatka Peninsula. Photo 2 of 2Commodore Leslie Gehres inspecting a PV-1 Ventura of Bombing Squadron VB-139 after a belly landing on Attu Island, Alaska, 18 May 1944. Note the Marsden Matting runway surfaceGround Crewmen with Bombing Squadron 139 posing with their squadron mascot in front of the tail section of a PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber on Attu Island, Alaska, 4 Jun 1944. Note the Marsden mat surface.President Franklin Roosevelt’s dog Fala on the deck of the destroyer USS Cummings as the ship transported the President through Alaska’s Inside Passage, Aug 1944.
A PV-1 Ventura of Bombing Squadron VB-139 after a belly landing on Attu Island, Alaska, 18 May 1944. This aircraft’s hydraulics were shot out by a Japanese gunboat off the Kamchatka Peninsula. Photo 2 of 2Commodore Leslie Gehres inspecting a PV-1 Ventura of Bombing Squadron VB-139 after a belly landing on Attu Island, Alaska, 18 May 1944. Note the Marsden Matting runway surfaceGround Crewmen with Bombing Squadron 139 posing with their squadron mascot in front of the tail section of a PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber on Attu Island, Alaska, 4 Jun 1944. Note the Marsden mat surface.President Franklin Roosevelt’s dog Fala on the deck of the destroyer USS Cummings as the ship transported the President through Alaska’s Inside Passage, Aug 1944.
A US Navy PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber of Bombing Squadron VB-136 taking off from Attu, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Nov 1944PV-1 Ventura with Fleet Air Wing 4 being refueled at Attu, Aleutians, Alaska, 15 Feb 1945. The crewman is Aviation Machinists Mate-3rd class J.W. Waitaneke.Mark XIII torpedo with wooden drag ring being loaded into a United States Navy PV-2 Harpoon of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-139 at Casco Field, Attu Island, Aleutians, Alaska, 7 Apr 1945. Note the Marsden Matting.United States Navy PV-2 Harpoon of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-139 at Casco Field, Attu Island, Aleutians, Alaska, 7 Apr 1945.
A US Navy PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber of Bombing Squadron VB-136 taking off from Attu, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Nov 1944PV-1 Ventura with Fleet Air Wing 4 being refueled at Attu, Aleutians, Alaska, 15 Feb 1945. The crewman is Aviation Machinists Mate-3rd class J.W. Waitaneke.Mark XIII torpedo with wooden drag ring being loaded into a United States Navy PV-2 Harpoon of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-139 at Casco Field, Attu Island, Aleutians, Alaska, 7 Apr 1945. Note the Marsden Matting.United States Navy PV-2 Harpoon of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-139 at Casco Field, Attu Island, Aleutians, Alaska, 7 Apr 1945.

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