Vought F-4U4 Corsair. Photo: me. More here.

USS Michigan’s Officers and Crew, photographed on board in 1918 by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia. Note the ship’s bandsmen seated in the front row with their musical instruments.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph

Personnel on the flight deck of the carrier Belleau Wood (CVL 24) attempt to put out fires after a kamikaze struck the ship. 10/30/1944.

via naval.aviation.museum/Robert L. Lawson Photograph Collection

A formation of Curtiss SBC Helldivers of Scouting Squadron (VS) 3 in flight over the Hoover Dam, July 20, 1939.

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Army fighter planes aboard a carrier being ferried to a battlefront form a pattern, too, but a pattern of doom for the Axis. Looking like a horde of grasshoppers with wings outstretched, they wait - for action. U.S. Navy photo. In: Popular Photography, Aug 1943.

A signalman wigwags a message from the afterdeck of a carrier to the cruiser following in line. The reason a more modern means of communication, like radio, is not used is that enemy sub or warship might be listening. U.S. Navy photo. In: Popular Photography, Aug 1943.

Vought SB2U dive-bombers. Artist: John t. McCoy, Jr. In: LIFE - U.S. Navy special edition, October 28, 1940.

Consolidated PBY flying boats, patrol bombers. Below them is aircraft carrier Lexington. Artist: John T. McCoy, Jr. In: LIFE - U.S. Navy special edition, October 28, 1940.

Men in asbestos stand by during all flights to haul fliers from crashed planes which catch fire. Young seamen take this job which calls for guts rather than experience. In: LIFE - U.S. Navy special edition, October 28, 1940.

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Adrey Garret uses a ham radio at Williams Air Operating Facility during the 1956 winter. Ham radio was the only means of voice communication with friends and family back in the U.S. for navy personnel living and working in Antarctica in the days before satellite telephone technology became common. Date Taken: 1956. Photograph by: U.S. Navy / National Science Foundation.

via USAP