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Brewster F2A-1 Buffalo of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3) At Naval Air Station, North Island, California, 9 September 1940.
The plane is painted in McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 2. Note gun camera mounted on the
starboard side of the fuselage, forward. Grumman F2F-1 fighters of Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2) are in the background.

 
A TBM Avenger piloted by First Lieutenant Girard Blais, USMCR, attached to VMTB-144 based aboard USS Salerno Bay
(CVE-110) comes home to make what is believed to be the last carrier landing during the occupation of the Japanese
Empire. This was off Formosa when planes from Salerno Bay furnished air support for Chinese troops occupying the
island. 4 December 4th 1945

 
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