Breaking loose when Ensign (now Lt. (jg)) J.G. Fraifogl, USNR, Mansfield, O., landed his Grumman HELLCAT on the TICONDEROGA after a flight mission in the Pacific, the auxiliary gasoline tank from his plane skids across the deck.

Breaking loose when Ensign (now Lt. (jg)) J.G. Fraifogl, USNR, Mansfield, O., landed his Grumman HELLCAT on the TICONDEROGA after a flight mission in the Pacific, the auxiliary gasoline tank from his plane skids across the deck.

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U.S. Navy

Unidentified

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Breaking loose when Ensign (now Lt. (jg)) J.G. Fraifogl, USNR, Mansfield, O., landed his Grumman HELLCAT on the TICONDEROGA after a flight mission in the Pacific, the auxiliary gasoline tank from his plane skids across the deck.

From TICONDEROGA FIREFIGHTERS QUELL FLAMES IN HURRY


September 12, 1945
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0506
Inscriptions [verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
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