Film of USS Enterprise SBDs launching prior to Battle of Midway

This video has some incredible footage of planes from USS Enterprise just prior to the Battle of Midway (my guess is May 1942 as the pre-war markings have been painted over for the BoM aircraft, and since some of these were lost on June 4th and are unarmed, we know it...

SBD-3 Ensign Frank O’Flaherty VS-6

SBD-3 BuNo 3224, Ensign Frank O’Flaherty and AMM 1/c Bruno P. Gaido, Scouting Six, USS Enterprise (CV6), June 4, 1942.   Ensign Frank O’Flaherty participated in the first attack of the Battle of Midway, completing a dive bombing run on the Japanese carrier...

P-47D-10-RE, Lt. Col. Leslie C. Smith, 61st F.S., 56th F.G.

P-47D-10-RE Serial Number 42-75121 61st F.S., 56th F.G. Assigned to Lt. Col. Leslie C. Smith (ace with seven victories.) Also flown by Lt. Frank Klibbe on nine missions between January 24th and February 8th 1944. Profile notes: Photos are not clear as to if this...

SBD-3 Stanley Swede Vejtasa VS-5

SBD-3 BuNo 4690, Lt. (j.g.) Stanley W. ‘Swede’ Vejtasa and Chief Radioman 3rd Class Frank B. Wood, Scouting Five, USS Yorktown (CV5), May 8, 1942. During the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 7, 1942, Swede and several other SBD pilots sank the Japanese...