U.S. Navy Flight deck crews put out flames after a Grumman F6F-3 <i>Hellcat</i> of Fighting Squadron 2 (VF-2, plane no. 30) crashed into the port side 20mm gallery ab aboard the aircraft carrier USS <i>Enterprise</i> (CV-6), 10 November 1943. The pilot, Ensign Byron M. Johnson, escaped serious injury. The plane was pushed over the side. <i>Enterprise</i> was then en route to support the Gilbert Islands campaign.
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