Photographed from the deck of an escorting U.S. Navy warship, this image captures the aircraft carrier USS Princeton underway, her flight deck crowded with propeller-driven aircraft. The twin 5-inch gun mount in the foreground reflects the heavy anti-aircraft armament standard aboard American carriers and their escorts during the final years of World War II and the immediate post-war period. The handwritten label identifying the ship as 'U.S.S. Princeton' preserves a sailor's own record of the fleet he served alongside. Project: 218372