Keywords: CV16 flightdeck 1943.jpg Aircraft of Carrier Air Group 16 return to the U S Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington CV-16 during the Gilberts operation November 1943 Crewmen in the foreground are sitting on the wing of a Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless as a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat lands and a Grumman TBF-1 Avenger taxies to a parking place on the forward flight deck Official U S Navy Photograph https //www history navy mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g-k/80-G-K-15000/80-G-K-15290 html 80-G-K-15290 from the U S Navy http //www history navy mil Naval History and Heritage Command 1943-11 Creator Edward Steichen File USS Lexington CV-16 November 1943 Gilbert Islands jpg PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USS Lexington CV-16 Edward Steichen Naval Aviation Photographic Unit Grumman TBF Avenger World War II color photographs of the Pacific War in 1943 Gilbert Islands Campaign |