The National Ensign lends pictorial significance to this photograph of a Grumman F6F Hellcat approaching a U.S. aircraft carrier in February 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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408.Photograph. 'File No: TR-6345 February 22, 1944 The flag and it's defenders Ruffling in the wind, the National Ensign lends pictorial significance to this photograph of a Grumman F6F Hellcat approaching a U. S. aircraft carrier of the Independence class, somewhere at sea. One pilot has just set his plane down on the fighter hook.' 22 February 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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