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Photograph of a U.S. Navy Vought SB2U Vindicator aircraft (fuselage designation 2-B-16), Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1940. An emblem depicting a knight riding a Pegasus is painted on the fuselage.Inscription on verso: "N.A.S. Norfolk /…

Photograph of a U.S. Navy Vought SB2U Vindicator aircraft, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1940.

Photograph of U.S. Navy photographers W. Hicks and Paul J. Madden (center) and Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal (in glasses) on the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944. Other servicemen are gathered in the background.Caption on album page: "W.…

Photograph of a Waco ASO aircraft (wing number NC11253), circa 1944-1956.

Photograph of a water plume near a ship, likely caused by an exploding bomb or a crashed aircraft, circa 1944-1945. Inscription on verso: "CV-9."

Composite photograph of a U.S. Navy pilot inset among images of aircraft and a ship, circa 1943-1945.Caption: "1,000,000th landing / Mad Mediterranean."

Typed history of the USS Essex (CV-9) covering its service during World War II, circa 1950s-1990s.Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J. Madden's service with the U.S. Navy during World War II, circa 1940-1995.

Report about kamikaze attacks during World War II, originally written as a term paper and featured in the June 1957 issue of the U.S. Naval Institute's "Proceedings". Nine typed pages.Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul…

Poem about "Doug's Communique," a military news bulletin on the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1943-1945.Caption on album page: "He (Winston) was transfered [sic] from Essex to the U.S.S. Franklin and was killed with hundreds of others when the Franklin was…

Newspaper clipping, "Essex claims title of Navy's fightingest ship--Aces abound," from The Honolulu Advertiser, December 3, 1944.Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J. Madden's service with the U.S. Navy during World War…