Grumman Avengers aboard an aircraft carrier during heavy seas
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, Gift of Mary Noble, from The collection of the National WWII Museum
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Grumman Avengers with folded wings aboard an aircraft carrier during heavy seas. "File No: SAC-PA-13-202686. January 4, 1944. Stern down---Pitching and tossing in a heavy sea, an escort carrier of the U.S. Navy plows on through the Atlantic in her vital task of shepherding convoy to an Allied port. The picture illustrates how well planes are secured to the decks of carriers for just such days as this. The planes are Grumman Avengers (TBF). - Official U.S. Navy Photograph." 1943 - January 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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Atlantic Ocean
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1.000
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-40.000
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Aircraft carriers--American--Atlantic Ocean
Airplanes--American--Atlantic