Recovering a Curtiss SC-1 floatplane on 6 March 1945, during the Iwo Jima operation. The aircraft is awaiting pickup by the ship's crane after taxiing onto a landing mat. The pilot was Lieutenant Jess R. Faulconer, Jr., USNR.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives 80-G-K-3747.
"Паркуется" самолет на "посадочный коврик" и продолжает буксироваться до момента пока краном зацепят и на борт поднимут.