Морпехи в воздухе. US Marine Corps Aviation

1 F4U-1 Corsair fighter of U.S. Marine Corps fighter squadron VMF-213 'Hell Hawks' being prepared for flight aboard USS Copahee, March 29,1943.(Photo: National Museum of Naval Aviation)

2 World War II (WWII) area photograph of US Marine Corps (USMC) First Lieutenant (1LT) Milton N. Vedder, taken at Guadalcanal, July 15, 1943. 1LT Thomas is an ace pilot and is credited with 6 kills.

3 Privates Neta Irene Farrell and Genevieve Evers, members of the first class of the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, position a depth charge as they prepare to load and arm it in the bay of a plane, Quantico, Va. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)

 

Кстати это та самая знаменитая база КМП Квантико, на территории которой находится академия ФБР, и авиабаза КМП - Marine Corps Air Station Quantico, на которой с 1939 года тренируются пилоты-морпехи.

 

1 F4F USMC Ace Joe Foss and crew loads ammo on his plane
2 VMF-121 Ace Joe Foss and Joe’s Flying Circus pilots on Guadalcanal 1943
3 F4F Wildcat and Marine Aces Smith (MoH VMF-223) Fraizer, Dobbin and Galer (MoH) at Guadalcanal 1942

 

B-25 Mitchell
VMB-611

 

F4F-4 Wildcats of VMF-441 at the airfield on Nanumea in the Ellice Islands

1 September, 1943
2 October, 23, 1943
3 едет по аэродрому, сентябрь,1943

 

Marine Corps ace Major George Hollowell in the cockpit of F4U Corsair.

 

Charles Lindbergh by VMF-115 F4U Corsair #360

 

1) 1Lt Stuart Alley of VMF-323 Ace on F4U-1D Corsair

2) Major Jeff Dorroh VMF-323 Ace on F4U-1D

 

Lt Huidekoper VMF-213 F4U-1 Corsair #82

 

Ace Pilot Donald Burch of VMF-221 on his damaged F4U-1 Corsair 125 – Russell Islands 1943
"И машина пришла на честном слове и одном крыле"

 

1) лётчики из VMF-214 Blacksheep

2) Capt McCartney VMF-214 Blacksheep

3) Lt John F. Bolt VMF-214 1943

4) Ace Pilot McClurg of Black Sheep Squadron VMF-214 1943

 

Capt Floyd Kirkpatrick VMF-441 Ace

 

"Ночные" воздушные морпехи на палубе авианосца
F4U-2 Corsairs from VMF(N)-532 on board the carrier USS Windham Bay CVE-93 – Saipan July 12, 1944

 

ещё одно фото из серии "на честном слове и одном крыле"
Damaged F4U-1A Corsair of VMF-216 – pilot Lt Marshall

 

ночные воздушные морпехи
1 F6F-5N Hellcat F(N)59 of VMF(N)-541 Peleliu 1944
2 F6F-5N Hellcat 29 of VMF(N)-511 taxiing on the flight deck of the escort carrier Block Island CVE-106
February 4, 1945
3 VMF(N)-451 F6F-5N Hellcats Falalop Island in Ulithi Atoll, May 30, 1945
4 F6F-5N Hellcat 92 of VMF(N)-511 on board the escort carrier USS Block Island CVE-106, Okinawa
May 19, 1945

 

Marines of VMF 221 by Scoreboard on Guadalcanal

 

грустное фото по VMF-211
Wrecked Wildcats of VMF-211 collected by Japanese, Wake, circa late Dec 1941
Source:United States National Archives
Identification Code:80-G-179006

 

освежу тему цветными фото
VMSB-332