The Snapshots in Time Collection
Aerial View of Escort Vessel Executing Turn, Photographed from Carrier Aircraft, USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) Task Group, WWII Pacific
Photographed from an aircraft launched off USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80), a screening destroyer or destroyer escort carves a sharp turn in the open Pacific, its wake curling into a dramatic arc. Such maneuvers were routine during anti-submarine patrols and task group operations in World War II. Project: 218458