Recent content by johnamartini

Thank you! Yes, very likely the photo was taken at a NAS before he joined VF-94. The photo came from his widow, who assumed it was taken on a carrier because he did fly off various flattops. More info from my mother-in-law. They lived briefly at Corpus Christi TX while her husband trained at the...

The attached photo shows my father-in-law in the cockpit of his Hellcat aboard USS Lexington in mid-1945. I have plenty of color plates for planes of VF-94, but what's curious about these markings is the vertical stripe directly below him. It's a marking that doesn't appear in any other photo of...