Carrier Aircraft Service Units were United States Navy units formed during World War II for the Pacific War to support naval aircraft operations. From 1942 to 1946, 69 Carrier Aircraft Service Units w
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Grumman F4F Wildcat maintenance 1943
Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 52 Camp and Administration on Naval Base Iwo Jima in 1945
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Manus Naval Base was a number of bases built after the World War II Battle of Manus by United States Navy on the Manus Island and a smaller island just east, Los Negros Island in the Admiralty Islands
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…they were needed. Gallery US Navy maintenance crews VB-106 clean engine parts under an airplane wing while raining at Momote Airfiled in March 1944 at Manus Naval Base Aviation machinists mates working on an aircraft engine USS Curtiss (AV-4) Grumman F6F Hellcat maintenance on USS Essex (CV-9) in July 1944 US Navy…
Aerial view of Seeadler Harbor in 1945, with US Navy Fleet Anchorage
Floating ship repair dock ABSD-4 background in Seeadler Harbor with ABSD-2 (foreground) in September 1945
Manus Naval Base, Naval supply depot with piers and quonset Hut warehouses on September 18, 1945
Naval Receiving Station, Lorengau, Manus, November 1944