The Snapshots in Time Collection
Portrait of Lt. Comdr. J.E. Mahan in Aircraft Cockpit, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) Collection
Lt. Comdr. J.E. Mahan sits in the cockpit of his personally marked Navy fighter, part of the air group assigned to USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) in the years following WWII. Naming individual aircraft after their assigned pilots was a common practice among carrier squadrons of the era. Project: 218372