captain-price-officially:Ensign Ardon R. Ives’ F6F-5 Hellcat lands in flames aboard the USS Lexingto
captain-price-officially:Ensign Ardon R. Ives’ F6F-5 Hellcat lands in flames aboard the USS Lexington on 25 February 1945.Though he survived the landing, Ives would be killed in a dogfight with Japanese fighters on 22 May the same year. -- source link