Apr 2, 2023
An American Hellcat fighter takes off from the carrier USS Essex during the attack on Rabaul, New Guinea - Feb 1942
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An American Hellcat fighter takes off from the carrier USS Essex during the attack on Rabaul, New Guinea - Feb 1942
© IWM (A 28944) Lieut Willem Van Den Bosch in front of his Hellcat fighter, aboard the carrier HMS Khedive from the Royal Netherlands Navy, May 1945 in the Far East.
US. Ensign Ardon Rector Ives of Rockford, Mich. appears to be calmly unbuckling his seat belt to escape from his burning Grumman F6F-5 ‘Hellcat’ of VF-9 fighter carrier group. His fighter burst into flames when it hit a barrier and other planes while landing on the USS Lexington (CV-16) on 25th Feb 1945. Ardon Ives was KIA in a dogfight with Japanese fighters just a few weeks later on 18th Mar 1945 (CREDIT : Paul Kerestes)
A US flight-deck crewman heroically leaps on to a burning Hellcat fighter plane to try to rescue the pilot after me misjudged his landing on to an aircraft carrier - date and location unknown