The Snapshots in Time Collection
U.S. Navy Official Photograph Caption Card No. 365, USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80), 'Crash of B-11,' Feb. 27 1945 — Confidential
This official U.S. Navy caption card accompanied a now-separated photograph documenting an aircraft accident aboard the escort carrier USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) on February 27, 1945. Marked 'Confidential' and restricted from publication by order of the Bureau of Aeronautics, the card records the subject as the crash of an aircraft flown by Lt.(jg) W.O. Green. Such caption cards were standard Navy documentation practice, preserving essential context — date, unit, and subject — for official wartime photography. Project: 218458