Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo fighter of Marine Fighting Squadron 211 (VMF-211)rests in the flight deck gallery netting after suffering landing gear failure while landing on board USS Long Island (AVG-1) off Palmyra Island, 25 July 1942(rudeerude)

Landing gear failure

Wreckage of a Japanese plane shot down in raid on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.texag57.

7 December 1941

USS Hornet (CV-8)at Pearl Harbor May 26, 1942, just after the Battle of Coral Sea and just before the Battle of Midway.
Harbor tug Nokomis (YT-142) is underway alongside her.
Paint chipped off Hornet's waterline area by wave action while at sea.(rudeerude)