Weighing down wing to stop Hellcat from flipping over on the side - somewhere in the Pacific


Hellcat in trouble

USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62) under Kamikaze attack, January 1945. The Japanese plane can be seen left of the biggest AA fire black cloud.

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The Douglas SBD Dauntless was a naval scout plane and dive bomber that was manufactured by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 through 1944. The SBD ("Scout Bomber Douglas") was the U.S. Navy's main carrier-borne scout plane and dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944.