

TBF Avenger being prepared for catapult launching aboard a US carrier.


Almost ready to go

 
A section of the Armada of Allied landing craft with their protective barrage balloons head toward the French coast, in June of 1944. 

Armada

USS Block Island (CVE 106), Marine Ordnance Man works on the .50 cal machine guns of a Vought F4U “Corsair”, on one of the ship’s elevators. Taken 5 June 1945, during operations off Okinawa. U.S. Marine Corps photograph, USMC 136792.

Note: On 29 May 1944, the first Block Island, (CVE 21), was sunk by German submarine U-549.

Source: Naval History & Heritage Command
