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![[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."
![[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."
![[Landing signal officer waving off Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/8c28d74301a0cff134d2a045c086b805.jpg "[Landing signal officer waving off Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft]")
Photograph of a landing signal officer waving off a Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft, USS Essex (CV-9), 1944.
Caption: "Hellcat taking 'wave off'. Essex, 1944."