This caption card identifies an accompanying photograph as showing a McDonnell F2H-3 Banshee, a U.S. Navy carrier-based jet fighter, aboard the USS Tarawa (CVA-40), an Essex-class aircraft carrier. The Banshee served the Navy from the late 1940s into the early 1960s, providing fleet air defense and ground-attack capability during the Korean War and the early Cold War period. Handwritten identification cards such as this one were commonly used by archives and photo collections to catalog naval aviation imagery. Project: 218463