USS ESSEX based TBMs and SB2Cs dropping bombs on Hokadate (Hakodate), Japan." July 1945.

Air Superiority

DOUGLAS DAUNTLESS DIVE BOMBER (SBD) ready to drop its 1,000-pound bomb on Japanese held island of Wake, 6 October 1943.

Dauntless Dive Bomber

A Brewster F2A-3 "Buffalo" aircraft from the 211th Fighter Squadron of the US Marine Corps has made an emergency landing, due to landing gear failure on the flight deck of the  aircraft carrier USS Long Island (AVG- 1) at sea, near Palmyra atoll, northern-central Pacific. July 25, 1942.
