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![[Damaged Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft about to be dropped overboard]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/9bf7786acca87699bd9176fffa9a1c21.jpg "[Damaged Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft about to be dropped overboard]")
Photograph of a damaged Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft (tail number 46) about to be dropped overboard, USS Essex (CV-9), 1944. Caption: "'Tilley' on #2 elevator will drop damaged F6F over side. Essex -- 1944."
![[Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft landing on USS Essex]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/b1b85e2640276c49fc42ee1f35d8e2cb.jpg "[Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft landing on USS Essex]")
Photograph of a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft of Air Group 83, U.S. Navy, landing on the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944-1945.
Caption: "AG-83 Hellcat landing on Essex."
![[Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft on USS Essex]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/aa092b9e56b50cb1e76e1b46d80ea729.jpg "[Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft on USS Essex]")
Photograph of a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft (fuselage designation 110) of Air Group 83, U.S. Navy, on the USS Essex (CV-9), 1945. Caption: "Hellcat (F6F) of AG-83, 1945."
![[Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft taking off from USS Essex]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/cb5ded2585447b57d8095166055b2ce0.jpg "[Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft taking off from USS Essex]")
Photograph of a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft (tail number 118) taking off from the USS Essex (CV-9), 1945. Caption: "Hellcat (F6-F) taking off -- U.S.S. Essex, 1945."
![[Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft in flight]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/a2432f28d79d3180a5291f5dd9041149.jpg "[Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft in flight]")
Photograph of a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft (tail number 9) of Carrier Air Group 15, U.S. Navy, in flight, circa 1945. Inscription on verso: "Essex / AG-15 F-6F buzzing ship."
![[Aircraft on deck of USS Essex]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/8c5db1f75e496afab38b6cf6b85e0cbc.jpg "[Aircraft on deck of USS Essex]")
Photograph of aircraft on the deck of the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944-1945. The aircraft in the foreground are Grumman F6F Hellcats.
Inscription on verso: "Essex full deck."
![[Serviceman securing Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/0b0dccc28d95c0bda2d7b0d4a23006b6.jpg "[Serviceman securing Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft]")
Photograph of a serviceman securing a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft, USS Essex (CV-9), December 1944.Inscription on negative envelope: "Essex -- Dec. 1944 / Securing F.6.F in typhoon."
![[Grumman F6F Hellcat in flight]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/a1cc1d379836c54cde14ca153b9610d3.jpg "[Grumman F6F Hellcat in flight]")
Photograph of a U.S. Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat (tail code Z-28) in flight, circa 1944-1945.
![[Navy pilots with Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/95a503908db8858019aa040eaf02ecbe.jpg "[Navy pilots with Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft]")
Photographic group portrait of U.S. Navy pilots with a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft, circa 1943-1946.
![[Servicemen with Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/61681b91dc791c064ea90717324ea750.jpg "[Servicemen with Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft]")
Photographic negative of U.S. Navy servicemen with a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft loaded on a barge, Guam, circa 1944-1950. Elmer A. Ball is second from the right.