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Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Of The 6Th Emergency Reserve Squadron Equipped With Radar Unit. Notice The Attached Rescue Boat, Used To Rescue Crews Shot Down At Sea. Florida Blanca Airstrip, Luzon, Philippine Islands - 27 June 1945.

Rocket Installation On A Bell P-39

Rocket Installation On A Bell P-39

Rocket Installation On A Bell P-39.

Rocket Installation On A Bell P-39.

Projectile, HE 4.5 inch, M8, T-30 Rocket, aircraft-mounted under wing of A-20.

Close-up of wing mount for aircraft rocket. Installed on wing of A-20.

Photographed by Richard Shipman, a photographer from USS Intrepid (CV-11), from the back seat of an SB2C.

Task force 38, after returning from a raid on Formosa, 13 October 1944.

Over the fleet on their return from strikes on Manila Bay, 25 October 1944.

USS Alaska (CB-1) Recovering a Curtiss SC-1 floatplane on 6 March 1945, during the Iwo Jima operation. The aircraft is awaiting pickup by the ship's crane after taxiing onto a landing mat. The pilot was Lieutenant Jess R. Faulconer, Jr., USNR. Official U.S. Na

Spotting plane taxiing in the wake of USS IOWA (BB-61) off San Francisco, July 1947.

SCR 270-D Early Warning Radar set being assembled. Note two Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" flying overhead. Baker Island.

SCR 270-D radar Early Warning set being assembled, Baker Island

SCR- 270-D Early Warning Radar set being assembled on Baker Island

This set of SCR 270 D radar, operated by the 2nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion on Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, had a range of 132 nautical miles. 7 July 1945.