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A U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1 Corsair of Marine fighter squadron VMF-213 Hell Hawks is warming up for fight from the flight deck of the escort carrier USS Copahee (ACV-12), on 29 March 1943.
Aircraft return to the carrier during the Gilberts operation, November 1943. Crewmen in the foreground are sitting on the wing of an SBD-5, as an F6F-3 lands and a TBF-1 taxiies to a parking place on the forward flight deck.
U.S. Marines of Marine fighter squadron VMF-222 Flying Deuces relaxing in between strikes on a Vought F4U-1 Corsair on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, in April 1944.
United States Navy aviation cadets check flight boards for last minute instructions at the Naval Air Training Center at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas (USA), November 1942.
Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" Fighter (Bureau # 5171), of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3) at Naval Air Station, Kaneohe, Oahu, on 29 May 1942, with ground crewmen folding the starboard wing. On 4 June 1942, in the Battle of Midway, this plane was flown by Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach, VF-3's Commanding Officer, during the afternoon combat air patrol defending USS Yorktown (CV-5), wherein Thach probably shot down Lieutenant Joichi Tomonaga, leader of the attacking Japanese torpedo planes.
U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), 1943-1944.
U.S. Navy Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo fighters pictured during a training flight from Naval Air Station (NAS) Miami, Florida (USA), 1941-1942.
SBD flying over NAS Daytona Beach (Florida, USA) in October 1942.
Three U.S. Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastators assigned to the Naval Operational Training Command at Naval Air Station Miami, Florida (USA), in flight over South Florida, 1942/43. NAS Miami and NAS Ft. Lauderdale were home to Operational Training Units for the instruction of U.S. Navy torpedo-bomber pilots. The last TBD was retired in early 1944.
U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Rolland N. Rinabarger of Marine fighter squadron VMF-214 Blacksheep in his Vought F4U-1 Corsair at Espiritu Santo in September 1943. Badly shot up by Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Zeros during an early mission to Kahili only two weeks after this photo was taken, Lt. Rinabarger returned to the United States for lengthy treatment. He was still in California (USA) when the Second World War ended.
Two U.S. Marine Corps Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in 1942.
View of the forward hangar bay of the first U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Long Island (ACV-1) in June 1942. Grumman F4F-4 Wildcats and Curtiss SOC-3 Seagulls (biplanes) of squadron VGS-1 are spotted.
A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of fighting squadron VF-1 launches from the hangar deck catapult on board the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) during her shakedown cruise in the waters off Trinidad, 3 June 1943.
Front view of a Consolidated PBY-2 Catalina on the seaplane ramp at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida (USA). These PBYs were replaced with the PBY-5 in 1943. This picture was taken on 8 January 1942. Naval aircraft Factory N3N-3 trainers are visible in the background.
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