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Lt. Walter Chewning, catapult officer, clambers up the side of an F6F to assist the pilot, Ens. Byron Johnson, from the flaming cockpit following the crash landing on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, while enroute to attack Makin Island in the Pacific in November 1943. Exact date of photograph is not known. U.S. Navy Photo.

Lt. Walter Chewning, catapult officer, clambers up the side of an F6F to assist the pilot, Ens. Byron Johnson, from the flaming cockpit following the crash landing on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, while enroute to attack Makin Island in the Pacific in November 1943. Exact date of photograph is not known. U.S. Navy Photo.

Lt. Walter Chewning, catapult officer, clambers up the side of an F6F to assist the pilot, Ens. Byron Johnson, from the flaming cockpit following the crash landing on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, while enroute to attack Makin Island in the Pacific in November 1943. Exact date of photograph is not known. U.S. Navy Photo.

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