Interesting Photo of the USS Hornet and an aircraft landing

With regards to poor captioning, cv6.org and the Read Controversy.

From the cv6.org article on the Read controversy

If you look at the photo and then watch the youtube video. You will see that at 3:35-3:36. The two are one and the same. The details all match, the railing, the one large vertical support, and the large pipe at the bottom of the photo. As this all happened after Read was killed, the camera pans away from the destruction of the previous bomb hits, so its not spliced together, the photo would be impossible to attribute to Read.

Yes, no one is immune to bad captioning. What's the old adage "Trust, but verify"

 

No need to sulk OpanaPointer,

just looking through the whole web page at http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/Steichin/Steichin.html

It seems it might be a printer's error. The correct photo with correct caption is the sixth one after the one you posted. It is http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/Steichin/Steichin-33.jpg
and the caption is the same, word for word.

So it might not be an error on Steichin's part.

 

Isnt there another movie clip of the Hornet, Yorktown or Enterprise taking a bomb hit (torpedo?) somewhere on the middle or front of the ship, with a F4F parked near the back; and you can see how the bomb shock waves upon the hull nearly "bounce" the plane off the deck?

I swear Ive seen it on TV, but cant find it on youtube.

 

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From my perspective as an "AIRDALE" this pilot did a great job of bring this thing back aboard wounded and shot up. We all know the snipes are only there so air ops can happen!

 

It was a SBD, not a F4F. With regard to the photo in the original post, that was included in a report I found and posted to my site a while back; you can read it here.