Keywords: outdoor vehicle aircraft airplane USMC 136542 (Color): USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109). Plane Director uses arm signals to position a TBM "Avenger" bomber on the ship's starboard catapult, during operations off Kyushu, Japan, 8 September 1945. Flight deck crewmen are attaching a catapult bridle to the plane. Note rockets (probably 3.5-inch) mounted under the TBM's wing, and resting on the cart in the left center background. U.S. Marine Corps photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. USMC 136542 (Color): USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109). Plane Director uses arm signals to position a TBM "Avenger" bomber on the ship's starboard catapult, during operations off Kyushu, Japan, 8 September 1945. Flight deck crewmen are attaching a catapult bridle to the plane. Note rockets (probably 3.5-inch) mounted under the TBM's wing, and resting on the cart in the left center background. U.S. Marine Corps photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. |