TBD-1  Devastator with damage to its fuselage after a hard landing on the carrier Yorktown,3 sep 1940

TBD-1 Devastator

Lieutenant-Commander Albert Marion Bontier, USN, captain of the USS Seawolf at the time of her loss, October 1944.  Nothing special to say - another sad casualty of war.  Best regards, JR.

A.M. Bontier, USN.

U.S. Navy Douglas PD-1 flying boats of patrol squadron VP-6F lined up at Naval Air Station Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA), on occasion of a visit by the U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 Febuary 1934. Note the squadron's pegasus emblem on the first aircraft on the left.
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