Sailors race across the flight deck of the escort carrier USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) as a distant vessel appears to come under attack in this dramatic WWII Pacific Theater photograph. Petrof Bay served as part of Task Unit 'Taffy 3' during the fierce Battle off Samar in October 1944, when a small group of American escort carriers and destroyers faced a vastly larger Japanese surface fleet and relentless kamikaze attacks. Project: 218467