MAKE A MEME View Large Image Returning from a mission, Lieutenant R.E. Garnett found that the port engine of his Harpoon was losing oil rapidly, possibly because of damage from debris thrown up by his own rockets in an attack on a Japanese installation. The oil loss ...
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Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome outdoor airplane aircraft vehicle black and white 80-G-322668: Returning from a mission, Lieutenant R.E. Garnett found that the port engine of his Harpoon was losing oil rapidly, possibly because of damage from debris thrown up by his own rockets in an attack on a Japanese installation. The oil loss became so heavy that he had to feather the prop on this engine and depend on the other to bring him back 400 miles across the North Pacific to his advanced Aleutian base. He got back – as seen here making a successful one-engine landing, April 10, 1945. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/04/26). 80-G-322668: Returning from a mission, Lieutenant R.E. Garnett found that the port engine of his Harpoon was losing oil rapidly, possibly because of damage from debris thrown up by his own rockets in an attack on a Japanese installation. The oil loss became so heavy that he had to feather the prop on this engine and depend on the other to bring him back 400 miles across the North Pacific to his advanced Aleutian base. He got back – as seen here making a successful one-engine landing, April 10, 1945. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/04/26).
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