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Photo # NH 94870:  FM-2 fighter receives the 'launch' signal on board USS Makin Island, 1945

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USS Makin Island (CVE-93), 1944-1947 --
Aircraft Operations


This page features all the views we of USS Makin Island's aircraft in operation.

For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Makin Island (CVE-93), 1944-1947.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 69419

    TBM "Avenger" torpedo plane


    Is catapulted from USS Makin Island (CVE-93), circa 1945.

    Collection of Vice Admiral Calvin T. Durgin. Donated by his daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Durgin Sherrill, 1969.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94870

    FM-2 "Wildcat" fighter


    Receives the "launch" signal on USS Makin Island (CVE-93), 1945.

    Courtesy of PHC John Highfill, USN (Retired).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94880

    USS Makin Island
    (CVE-93)

    A FM-2 "Wildcat" fighter makes the ship's last catapult launching, off Honolulu, Hawaii, in October 1945.
    Note the catapult bridle dropping away below the plane's wheels.

    Courtesy of PHC John Highfill, USN (Retired).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94879

    USS Makin Island
    (CVE-93)

    A TBM-1 "Avenger" torpedo bomber makes Composite Squadron 84's (VC-84) last landing on board, circa mid-1945.

    Courtesy of PHC John Highfill, USN (Retired).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94875

    General Motors FM-2 "Wildcat" fighter


    Gets a "wave-off"from the Landing Signal Officer, while attempting to land on USS Makin Island (CVE-93), circa 1944-45.

    Courtesy of PHC John Highfill, USN (Retired).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94873

    TBM-1 "Avenger" torpedo plane


    Flies low over the flight deck of USS Makin Island (CVE-93), circa 1944-1945.

    Courtesy of PHC John Highfill, USN (Retired).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 50KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94872

    USS Makin Island
    (CVE-93)

    Crewmen pull a FM-2 "Wildcat" fighter back from the forward edge of the flight deck, after it flipped over in a "freak accident", circa 1944-1945.

    Courtesy of PHC John Highfill, USN (Retired).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 150KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 69420

    TBM "Avenger" torpedo planes
    ,
    of Composite Squadron 84 (VC-84)

    Fly over Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, on 16 April 1945.
    View looks east.
    The planes were based on board USS Makin Island (CVE-93).

    Collection of Vice Admiral Calvin T. Durgin. Donated by his daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Durgin Sherrill, 1969.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     


    For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Makin Island (CVE-93), 1944-1947.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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