Just a random selection.
Note the caption: Jet catapulting takeoff of plane from flight deck of the aircraft carrier Leyte during Korean War.
Charred wreckage of planes on the deck of American aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
Serious drama: Crash landing of F6F Hellcat on flight deck of USS Enterprise CV-6 while en route to attack Makin Island; Lieut. Walter Chewning, catapult officer, clambering up side of plane to assist pilot, Byron Johnson, from flaming cockpit.
Smoke and fire billowing from deck of the aircraft carrier Belleau Woods after she was struck by a Japanese kamikaze plane, one of about 300 ships damaged or sunk by the suicide pilots.
American B-24 bomber lifting off from runway of Motoyama Field No. 1 while ground crew attends to a wrecked B-29 bomber on the edge of the airfield on the recently captured island of Iwo Jima.
By: longshot - 26th February 2009 at 19:23
RAF Bombay on Life
I’m sure the background is at Luqa Malta.
John
The photo is by Margaret Bourke White from a set called ‘British & Egyptian Forces tagged as Heliopolis July 1940….theseones have been on the Life archive since launch in Nov 2008 I think but the Baldonnell ones are new to me….my favourites still are the shots of Empire flying boat CLARE at LaGuardia
By: John Aeroclub - 26th February 2009 at 17:15
I’m sure the background is at Luqa Malta.
John
By: Mondariz - 26th February 2009 at 16:45
Yes i know:D
I simply had to post it and could not find any group of pictures where if would fit better….
By: pagen01 - 26th February 2009 at 16:40
Excellent pics again, the Bristol Bombay is a real oddity in that company!
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