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[carbone14]

Un destroyer de la classe Fletcher en opération de transfert en mer avec l’USS Randolph (CV-15) – Guerre du Pacifique – Mai 1945

©Naval History and Heritage Command - 80-G-K-5264

[lonestarbattleship]

A Fletcher Class Destroyer engages in transfer at sea operations with USS RANDOLPH (CV-15).

Date: May 1945

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-K-5264

[theworldatwar]

A US F6F Hellcat fighter aborts its landing run at sunset on the USS Randolph aircraft carrier. It’s seen passing over the silhouette of the ships 40mm anti-aircraft guns - Pacific Ocean 1944

[lex-for-lexington]

“USS Randolph (CV-15) in a photo dated 5 November 1944.”

(Source)

[tpmmpt-1]

USS Randolph (CV-15) taken from the back seat of an SB2C Helldiver,1945

[lonestarbattleship]

A Grumman F6F Hellcat from USS RANDOLPH (CV-15), is engulfed in flames with pilot still aboard, after making an emergency landing on USS YORKTOWN (CV-10). The crew extinguished the flames enough to allow pilot to get out.

Note: the crew is likely asbestos suits as the material is naturally fire resistant.

Filmed on March 11, 1945.

NARA: 23643

[lonestarbattleship]

USS RANDOLPH (CV-15) alongside a repair ship at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, showing damage to her after flight deck resulting from a Kamikaze hit on March 11.

Photographed from a USS MIAMI (CL-89) floatplane on March 13, 1945.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-344531

[lonestarbattleship]

An Officer embracing his family during the ceremony surrounding the return of USS RANDOLPH (CV-15) to the Norfolk Naval Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. "She had been on deployment to the Mediterranean for six months of Fleet and NATO exercises and returned to the Norfolk Navy Yard for installation of an angled flight deck and other modernizations."

Photographed on June 18, 1955.

Norfolk Public Library: smc_mss0000187_000610_016