Aircraft carrier USS Essex photographed by a blimp from the U.S. Navy underway in May 1943 with Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers, Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters, and Grumman TBF-1 Avenger torpedo planes all parked on the flight deck. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)

USS Essex Underway

December 8, 2015

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Aircraft carrier USS Essex photographed by a blimp from the U.S. Navy underway in May 1943 with Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers, Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters, and Grumman TBF-1 Avenger torpedo planes all parked on the flight deck. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)

Aircraft carrier USS Essex photographed by a blimp from the U.S. Navy underway in May 1943 with Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers, Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters, and Grumman TBF-1 Avenger torpedo planes all parked on the flight deck. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.) — (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)

A Grumman TBF-1C Avenger from the Royal New Zealand Air Force on the Turtle Bay airfield at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, February 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)

North American P-51H Mustang used by NACA for flight research during 1945. (NASA Photograph.)

P-51H Mustang at NACA

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