USS Barnes tied up pierside, date and location unknown.

San Diego Air & Space Museum Ship Image Collection.

Head-on, Orchard Point, Wash. 9 March, 1943. Speed, 10 knots.

Seattle Branch of the National Archives photo.

USS Barnes (ACV-20), 1 July 1943, and USS Croatan (ACV-25), 20 May 1943. ONI 54-CV, Division of Naval Intelligence, Identification and Characteristics Section, 11-43.

USS Barnes (CVE-20) underway on 1 July 1943, en route to the western Pacific. Note her deck load of USAAF P-38 Lightnings (their wings removed to maximize numbers) and P‑47 Thunderbolts. U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo # 1996.488.032.012; U.S. National Archives photo # 80-G-72301.

45° off centerline view of USS Barnes (CVE-20), Navy Yard Mare Island, Calif., 10 October 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island, Calif., photo # 7105-43.

Source: Mare Island Naval Shipyard Ship Files, San Francisco NARA.

U.S. Army P-47D Thunderbolt fighters parked on the carrier's flight deck, for transportation to the Pacific war zone, 15 October 1943. Six Navy PV-1 Ventura patrol bombers are parked aft.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97125).

A Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighter goes over the side of USS Barnes (CVE-20), 22 October 1943, after the pilot attempted to regain flying speed after receiving the "Cut" signal from the Landing Signal Officer. The pilot, Ensign Olinyock, A-V(N), and a crew member, F1c Olin Victor Bulgrin, were killed in this accident. Several other crew members were injured. Note triangular flight deck crash barrier supports partially extended below the plane.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (# 80-G-202611).

USS Barnes (CVE-20) with Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft parked on her flight deck, 8 January 1944.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97124).

USS Barnes (CVE-20) while under refit at the San Francisco Navy Yard, 25 December 1944, along with the light cruiser USS Detroit (CL-8) and the destroyer USS Beale (DD-471). Circles indicate changes, which at this time were relatively minor.

Photos and text from U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman.

USS Barnes (CVE-20) underway bound for the U.S., November 1945 with a deck cargo of JNAF and JAAF fighter, reconnaissance and dive-bomber types lashed down to the flight deck. The most unusual type at bottom left is the twin-engined Nakajima J5N1 Tenrai ("Heavenly Thunder"). Photo Aviation History Collection/Alamy Stock Photo.

Image scanned from Wings of the Rising Sun: Uncovering the Secrets of Japanese Fighters and Bombers of World War II, by Mark Chambers. Osprey Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, PO Box 883, Oxford, OX1 9PL.,UK. Also 1383 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10018, USA. ISBN HB 978 1 4728 2373 4.