The Snapshots in Time Collection
Album Page: SB2C Helldiver Ferry Flight, Majuro to Kwajalein, 1944 (McAleer Collection)
This album page documents a 1944 ferry flight of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber between Majuro and Kwajalein Atolls in the Marshall Islands, part of the U.S. Navy's Central Pacific campaign. Handwritten annotations identify the aircraft and the airmen, Ed and Ross, offering a rare personal record of the logistical flights that kept carrier squadrons supplied with aircraft across the vast distances of the Pacific war. Project: 218194