Crew gathered on flight deck of American aircraft carrier for two burial at sea funerals March 30, 1944(rudeerude)

Burial at sea

PV-1 over the California coast in 1944. PV-1 Venturas and PV-2 Harpoons were widely used in the Pacific and the Aleutian Islands by the Navy and Marines. They never seemed to get the publicity that the better known B-25's got yet they were a dependable plane that was well liked by their crews.

Lockheed PV-1 Ventura

A Navy salvage crew cook a meal on Omaha Beach during a break in salvage and clean up of debris & ships beached by a violent storm that also wrecked temporary "mulberry" port facilities which had been erected shortly after D-Day.June,21 1944(rudeerude)