Photograph of a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft crashed nose down on the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944-1945. Inscription on verso: "Visiting F-6-F makes an embarrassing landing."Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J.…
Photograph of a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft crashed nose down on the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944. The pilot is still in the cockpit. Inscription on verso: "AG-15 F6F / Essex / 1944."Caption on album page: "Bad landing."Part of a disassembled album…
Photograph of a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft crashed nose down on the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944. The pilot is still in the cockpit.Inscription on verso: "D-13 / (Cropped?)."Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J.…
Photograph of a Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire crashed nose-first into the deck of the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944-1945.Caption on album page: "British Spitfire visits Essex."Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J.…
Photograph of people looking at a crashed aircraft, Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York, October 26, 1930. The verso caption notes that Major Phillip Watson and Julius Nester were killed in the crash.Typed caption on verso: "Crash of Swallow plane…
Photograph of military personnel working on a crashed Lockheed C-130 Hercules (tail number 7875) at an airfield in South Vietnam, circa May 1968. Several water trucks and other vehicles are parked around the plane, and black smoke billows from the…
Photograph of military personnel responding to the crash of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules at an airfield in South Vietnam, circa May 1968. Smoke billows in the distance from the crash site.
Newspaper clipping, "Thru the night U.S. investigators hunt cause of crash," from The Press-Scimitar (Memphis, Tennessee), January 18, 1936. Reports on an investigation of an airplane crash. Includes a photograph of the investigators, which includes…
Photograph of servicemen and a fire engine tending to a crashed Lockheed F-104 Starfighter aircraft, Chu Lai Air Base, Vietnam, circa 1965. The accompanying caption notes that the aircraft crashed while attempting a dead-stick landing.Caption on…