USS Thornhill In The Pacific
September 1945

Flash And Gavin Lieutenants (JG) Flash Dow and Ray Gavin.
Rufe These 2 shots are of a badly damaged floatplane Zero at Imiage. When it first appeared the floatplane version of the famous A6M2 fighter was able to challenge most enemy fighters, by the end of the war it was obsolete and not capable of giving a real fight in the air against the high performance enemy planes.