Navy PT Boat 523 80-G-372892
Ensign Crandell, TBM Pilot of VC-80, and his aircrewman who were brought back on-board USS Manila Bay (CVE 61) by a U.S. Navy PT Boat 523 after they were shot down over Leyte Island beachhead, Philippines, October 22, 1944. Note the Pt-boat’s field expedient 37mm gun forward, salvaged from an AAF P-39 Airacobra. 80-G-372892