This official U.S. Navy caption card, once affixed to the back of a combat photograph from USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80), documents an F6F Hellcat 'pulling out after chasing [a] Jap to deck of ship' on October 25, 1944 — the day of the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the first sustained kamikaze attacks against American escort carriers off Samar. Marked 'Confidential' and restricted from publication by the Bureau of Aeronautics, the card illustrates how the Navy tightly controlled and documented combat imagery during this pivotal and costly engagement in the Pacific War. Project: 218455