A damaged U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-4E <i>Helldiver</i> of Bombing Squadron 87 (VB-87) takes the barrier aboard the aircraft carrier USS <i>Ticonderoga</i> (CV-14) during operations off Japan in July-August 1945. Notice that the rear-seat gunner has already begun to make his way out of the cockpit. The aircraft's pilot was P.E. Johnson.
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