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The pilots of U.S. Navy bombing squadron VB-3 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) in April 1942.
Front row (l-r): Ens John Q. Roberts, A-V(N)*; Lt Ralph Arndt; Lt DeWitt Shumway (XO); LCdr Maxwell F. Leslie (CO); Lt Harold S. Bottomley; Ens John C. Lough, A-V(N).

Rear row (l-r): Lt(jg) Gordon A. Sherwood; Ens Roy A. Isaman, A-V(N); Ens John C. Butler, A-V(N); Ens John Bridgers, A-V(N); Ens Robert M. Elder, A-V(N); Ens Carl D. Pfeiffer, A-V(N)*; Ens Charles S. Lane, A-V(N); Ens Bunyan R. Cooner, A-V(N); Ens Robert K. Campbell, A-V(N); Ens Paul W. Schlegel, A-V(N), USNR; Ens Frank W. O’Flaherty, A-V(N)*. (* indicates temporary duty from scouting squadron VS-6)
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Source U.S. Navy photo No. NH 95555; can from "Robert J. Cressmann (ed.): A Glorious Page in Our History. The Battle of Midway, 4-6 June 1942. Pictoral Histories Publishing, Missoula/Montana 1990. ISBN 0929521404, p. 106. Photo marked as USN photo "NH 95555".
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