Keywords: monochrome 80-G-354601: A TBM “Avenger” piloted by First Lieutenant Girard Blais, USMCR, attached to VMTB-144 based aboard USS Salerno Bay (CVE 110) comes home to makes what is believed to be the last carrier landing during the occupation of the Japanese Empire. This was off Formosa when planes from Salerno Bay furnished air support for Chinese troops occupying Formosa. Photographed received December 4, 1945. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/06/21). 80-G-354601: A TBM “Avenger” piloted by First Lieutenant Girard Blais, USMCR, attached to VMTB-144 based aboard USS Salerno Bay (CVE 110) comes home to makes what is believed to be the last carrier landing during the occupation of the Japanese Empire. This was off Formosa when planes from Salerno Bay furnished air support for Chinese troops occupying Formosa. Photographed received December 4, 1945. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/06/21). |