Photo #: 80-G-464482 (Complete caption) USS Enterprise (CV-6) Pilots of Fighting Squadron Six (VF-6) photographed on board Enterprise in January 1942, prior to the Marshall Islands raid. Aircraft behind them is a Grumman F4F-3 "Wildcat" fighter. Those present are (Seated, front row, left to right): Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Frank Bernard Quady, USN; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Ronald Jackson Hoyle, USN; Lieutenant Commander Frank Temple Corbin, USN; Lieutenant Commander Clarence Wade McClusky, Jr., USN, VF-6 Commanding Officer; Lieutenant James Seton Gray, Jr., USN; Lieutenant Roger William Mehle, USN; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) John Coney Kelley, USN. (Standing, second row, left to right): Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Wilmer Ernest Rawie; Ensign Norman Douglas Hodson, USNR; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Harold Naylor Heisel, USN; Ensign David Reid Flynn, USNR; Ensign Wayne Clarence Presley, USNR; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) James Ganson Daniels, III, USN; Ensign William Mack Holt, USNR; Radio Electrician Edward Howard Bayers, USN; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Gayle Louis Hermann, USN. (Standing, back row, left to right): Ensign Thomas Clinton Provost, USNR; Ensign Howard Lawrence Grimmell, Jr., USNR; Ensign Ralph M. Rich, USNR; Ensign David Wellington Criswell, USNR; Ensign Walter Lake Hiebert, USNR. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 570 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Image posted 5 May 1999
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