Fighter Pilots wait before Tarawa Raid

Autographing 1000lb bombs

Signal off. give the "go" signal to 1st fighter

Wake as we left it

SBD taxis up the deck, its bomb racks empty

Nov, 23, 1943 Days Tally for pilots; L-R Ens Ruckiske, Lt. Fleming, Lt. Buie,

Lt. Frendling, Lt. Whiteway, Lt Birkholm, Lt Rogers, Lt. Kosciuski

Lt(jg) Cleland-W.S. Hisler ARM3/c knocked down a Betty

11/20/1943

Lt. Cdr Buie famed Zero killer, skipper of Fighting 16 10/1943

Pilot of Al Fick's F6F plane

E.M. Snowden Commander Air Group 16

V.L. Prathe, ACMM in charge of plane handling crews n 1943

12/3/1943 off Kwajalein, torpedo-bomber makes run on the Lex

He comes in low and banks to right and is hit

Mortally wounded he plunges

to the sea and strikes the water

Billow of smoke marks another tally for the guns of the Lex

Capt Stump interviews P.L. Sloss S2/c one of the men hurt when the ship was torpedoed 12/5/1943

The wounded are transferred to a naval hospital at Pearl Harbor. Nine men were killed and thirty-give wounded in this attack

Barge picks up men from Lex after an afternoon's swimming at Majuro, May 1944

A Dauntless bomber silhouetted against the reef of Majuro Atoll. 5/1944. These planes were replaced by Helldivers in July

Vice-Admiral Mitscher and Capt. Litch salute the crew at a presentation of awards, 5/1944