A few nice photo search images I found:
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Image by U.S. Department of Defense Current Photos
A U.S. Navy UH-1N Huey helicopter assigned to the amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19) provides cover while U.S. Marines on a rigid hull inflatable boat approach the guided missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) during a visit, board, search and seizure exercise under way in the Mediterranean Sea May 14, 2011. Barry was on a deployment conducting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation missions in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Sunderman, U.S. Navy/Released)
Search and rescue flight *
Image by Konabish ~ Greg Bishop
Operation Gratitude: Task Force 38 raids Japanese shipping in the South China Sea
USS ASTORIA crewmen watch as LT Charles Tanner launches from ASTORIA's starboard catapult on 21 January 1945. His plane (OS2N Kingfisher) would not return to the ship. In the background, USS HANCOCK has not yet been damaged by an exploding bomb.
"The day had been eventful; both productive and costly. 1164 sorties were flown from the fast carriers, resulting in 104 enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground, more than 30 in the air, and ten Japanese merchant ships sunk. But the Japanese Special Attack Corps had managed to place a hefty price tag on these successes. A fleet carrier had been knocked out of action and 205 men were listed killed or missing in action aboard the four damaged ships. An additional 351 men were wounded. Jim Thomson wrote: Watch and watch again. That night the Japanese try to come back with our returning patrol. One is shot down in flames off our starboard beam by anti-aircraft fire & one flies over the Asty and we don't open up. It drops a bomb on a can but misses.Tanner not back yet. Rumors that he is lost.
* What happened to LT Tanner? www.mighty90.com/uploads/2010_Q1_Mighty_Ninety_Newsletter...
