It is my understanding that the copyright for this photograph is owned by the National Archives Navial Avation. 8x10 Glossy Photograph. This is an actual photograph recently printed from a negative in a photography lab.

Air and sea rescue plane picks up Lt. R. A. Schaeffer,badly burned USMC F-4-U pilot of Dayton Ohio shot down in St Georges Channel near Rabul. This Gunner who helped bring in the pilot,is back at his station. April 1944.

God Bless all our troops then and Now .