Torpedo bomber attempting to land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, Gift of Mary Noble, from The collection of the National WWII Museum
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Torpedo bomber attempting to land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. "File No: 2391: 101 photos. For release Sunday April 23, 1944. Baby flat top - The Navy's child prodigy. 48. The wave-off - Just as the torpedo bomber came in to land on the flight deck of an escort carrier, the stern rose or some other change in condition caused the landing Signal Officer to give the pilot the wave-off signal with his paddles, and the flyer guns his engine to start a new approach." Circa 1944
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Official U.S. Navy Photographs collected by navy veteran John R. Noble, who served in the Pacific on the USS Castor and the USS Fletcher during World War II.
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Aircraft carriers--American