The Snapshots in Time Collection
Verso Caption Card of Official U.S. Navy Photograph No. 318-5, U.S.S. Petrof Bay (CVE-80), December 18, 1944
The verso of this official U.S. Navy photograph identifies its subject precisely: the tail of FM-2 Wildcat Bureau Number 57002, found in a 20mm gun sponson aboard the escort carrier U.S.S. Petrof Bay (CVE-80), photographed December 18, 1944, for the ship's Air Department, and classified Confidential. Project: 218490