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NavSource Online: Aircraft Carrier Photo Archive

USS MIDWAY (CV-41)

Photos from the collection of VADM H.S. Duckworth

Submitted by his son, John Duckworth

Captain H.S. Duckworth
CO, USS Midway (CVB-41), Jan-Jul 1946
(Operation Frostbite, March 1946).

LCDR H.S. Duckworth
Portrait by LCDR McClelland Barclay, USNR,
in Pearl Harbor.
Probably mid-1941, while LCDR Duckworth
was Lexington's CAG.

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*Operation Frostbite, March 1946*
On March 1, 1946 *Midway, with elements of Air Group 74 on board, and accompanied by three destroyers (USS Charles R. Ware* (DD-865), USS Vogelgesang (DD-862) and USS Stormes (DD-780)) and a fleet oiler, left Norfolk under command of Rear Admiral John H. Cassady to conduct cold weather tests in Davis Strait. In the period 7-22 March, these units (Task Group 21.11) operated off the coast of Labrador and above the Arctic Circle, conducting flight operations with World War II type aircraft and the newer F8F Bearcat, the combination prop and jet FR-1 Fireball, and a Coast Guard HNS-1 helicopter.
*Midway* pushes the ice 56 Kb	*Midway* in the ice 86 Kb	Sunset from the bridge 38 Kb
Flight deck 105 Kb	Flight deck ops 24 Kb	Flight deck ops 19 Kb
SB2C 67 Kb	TBM (F4U in the background) 68 Kb	F6F and TBM 20 Kb
F4U (foreground) & SB2C 26 Kb	TBM 23 Kb	Flight deck ops 19 Kb
Flight deck ops 25 Kb	Flight deck ops 25 Kb	Flight deck ops 27 Kb
Coast Guard HNS-1 71 Kb	Coast Guard HNS-1 51 Kb	Coast Guard HNS-1 69 Kb
Wave over the bow 32 Kb	Flight deck activity 24 Kb	Flight deck activity 26 Kb
RADM John H. Cassady		CAPT H.S. Duckworth, CO 43 Kb
CAPT Duckworth (center), with Tommy Carlin on his left and Paul Hughes on his right 23 Kb	CAPT Duckworth (center), with CDR French (?) on his right and Paul Hughes (a NY stock broker) on his left 43 Kb	(Unknown) 38 Kb
	CDR John T. "Tommy" Blackburn, CAG 18 Kb
Refueling DD 30 Kb	Refueling DD 30 Kb	DDs 35 Kb
East Coast, 1946-1947
Two shots of F4U-4 Corsair fighters being catapulted with the New York sky line in the background, while *Midway* was steaming up river at the end of a VIP trip, circa May 1946.		Off Norfolk, April 4, 1947 78 Kb
*F4U Corsair* crash, 1946**
Starboard view # 1 19 Kb	Starboard view # 2 21 Kb	Starboard view # 3 19 Kb
Port view # 1 15 Kb	Port view # 2 16 Kb	Port view # 3 30 Kb
Port view # 4 29 Kb	Port view # 5 37 Kb	Port view # 6 29 Kb
	Port view # 7 33 Kb