Shown here is the USS Essex (CV-9) underway during may, 1943. The photo was taken from a blimp of ZP-14. Among the aircraft aprked on her flight deck are 24 SBD Dauntless scout bomber (aft), 11 F6F Hellcat fighters (on the after part of the midships area) and 18 TBF/TBM Avenger torpedo bombers (amidships).
