Flight Deck: A Pictorial Essay of a Day in the Life of an Airdale, with First-person Comments

40-mm guntub 5-inch gun Air Boss aircraft carrier aircraft in front Airdales arresting-wire Avenger back aft Battle of Midway battleship bombs brakes Bridge catapult catwalk chapter chock close cockpit crash deckedge elevator destroyer enemy action engine Essex-class carrier F4U Corsair F6F Hellcat feet fighters fire flag flight deck flight operations folded fuel gasoline green-shirts gunners gunnery practice hanger deck happened hoses island superstructure Kamikaze landing operations landing pattern launch operations left wheel looking moving Navigation Navy never noise Notice officer parking process parking spot personnel picture shows pilot plane plane-captain previous picture probably propeller propwash pull pushing remember respotting revved right wheel SB2C Helldiver signal Signal Bridge silhouette situation sometimes sound speed sponsons starboard side tail-section tailhook take-off taxi forward TBF/M TBM Avenger there’s things training ship turn U.S.S. Antietam watching wave-off wheelchock in hand wind wings WWII yellow-shirt