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Planes taking off of the USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) in Marshall Islands Campaign. In this F6F-3 Hellcat, Lieutenant Miner, pilot, clears the flight deck, and was the fifth plane to be launched. Note the F4U Corsairs with folded wings in the foreground. Date is given as February 21 1944.

 
I can feel that one...had to check for a few when I was in....got to the point that I didn't trust anything even after I returned home for a while.
 
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Flying Cadet Hub Zemke, later commander of the USAAF 56th Fighter Group, poses in summer flying outfit with a parachute over his shoulder prior to take off at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, January 1937. The aircraft in the background is a P-12E used to train fighter pilots in the advanced (final 3 months) flying school class. There were only 6 cadets in the Pursuit (fighter section) of this graduating class of 32

 
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