The Snapshots in Time Collection
U.S. Navy Early Jet Fighter in Flight Over Urban Landscape, Late 1940s
This photograph captures an early U.S. Navy jet fighter, likely a North American FJ-1 Fury, banking over a Southern California urban landscape in the late 1940s. As one of the Navy's first operational carrier jets, the FJ-1 marked the service's transition from propeller-driven to jet-powered naval aviation. Project: 218463