U.S. Navy Vought F4U-4 Corsair of Attack Squadron VA-74 "Sunday Punchers" crashes on board the aircraft carrier USS Phillipine Sea (CV-47). The plane, piloted by LTJG M. Stachow, crashed after hitting the port side of the flight deck. VA-74 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 7 (CVG-7) aboard the Philippine Sea for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 4 January to 31 May 1949. LTJG Stachow survived the crash.
The size of the EA-6B Prowler is quite apparent in this shot of a Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron (VAQ) 134 on the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CVN 65) in 1978.
A McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 214 (VMA-214), pictured conducting a flyover above Coeur d'Alene Airport, Idaho, 2019.
USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), right, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), and the Alvaro de Bazan-class frigate ESPS Méndez Núñez (F 104) transit the Strait of Gibraltar, entering the Mediterranean Sea.