A Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber crew member leaves the cockpit after landing on the Saratoga aircraft carrier
A Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber

 

Injured aerial gunner Alva Parker is helped out of the cockpit of a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber from VB-12 Squadron after boarding USS Saratoga (CV-3).
Douglas SBD Dauntless photo taken on November 05, 1943 after a raid by American carrier-based aircraft on the Japanese base Rabaul (New Guinea).
Air gunner of the Douglas SBD Dauntless bomber Alva Parker received shrapnel wounds over the target from a Japanese anti-aircraft shell.




Location: Pacific Ocean
Photo time: November 5, 1943
Photo by: Wayne Miller

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