The Snapshots in Time Collection
Aircraft Struck by Anti-Aircraft Fire Overhead, Photographed from Flight Deck of USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80), World War II
Captured from the flight deck of USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80), this photograph shows an aircraft struck by anti-aircraft fire high overhead, framed by parked TBM/TBF Avenger torpedo bombers -- a rare glimpse of the split-second violence of aerial combat during World War II Pacific operations. Project: 218467