Pilots pleased over their victory during the Marshall Islands attack, grin across the tail of an F6F Hellcat on board the USS LEXINGTON, after shooting down 17 out of 20 Japanese planes heading for Tarawa.  November 1943.  Comdr. Edward J. Steichen.  (Navy)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  080-G-470985
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  959

F6F Hellcat Pilots

Consolidate PB4Y-1P &quot;Rovin' Redhead&quot; parked at NAS North Island at the conclusion of WW II. Plane Commander: LCDR Harvey C. Paige USNR. This aircraft was part of Fleet Photo Reconnaissance Squadron One (VD-1) Which operated from Guadalcanal and Guam. LCDR Paige was the skipper of the squadron at the end of the war.

PB4Y-1P &quot;Rovin' Redhead&quot; at NAS North Island

USS SANTA FE lays alongside of USS FRANKLIN rendering assistance after carrier had been hit and set afire by a Japanese dive bomber.  March 1945.  (Navy)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  080-G-273880
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  979