"Pilots pleased over their victory during the Marshall
Islands attack, grin across the tail of an F6F Hellcat on board the USS Lexington,
after shooting down 17 out of 20 Japanese planes heading for Tarawa."
By Comdr. Edward J. Steichen, November 1943 National Archives and Records Administration,
General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1798-1947 (80-G-470985) [VENDOR # 96]
