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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97105

Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Brilliant, USMC


"Commanding Officer of the Marine "Devilcats" Squadron (VMF-212) returns aboard the escort carrier USS Rendova (CVE-114) from the British destroyer HMS Comus. Brilliant was shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire and after bailing out of his damaged plane, was rescued at sea by the Comus.
Photograph and quoted portion of caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 20 October 1951.
Note details of breeches bouy used for the transfer, and crew working jackets marked with Rendova's hull number.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

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10 November 1999