Keywords: Pilots USS Essex 12 1944.gif en U S Navy pilots being briefed on board the aircraft carrier USS Essex CV-9 the night before they were to raid Formosa December 1944 NARA-image 520855 Binford Ens Thomas Photographer Naval Photographic Center Department of the Navy Department of Defense 1944-12 PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USS Essex CV-9 United States naval aviators |