HMS Wager returns a downed pilot to the Fleet Aircraft Carrier HMS Indomitable.
This pilot was shot down over the fleet and had to ditch his aircraft. Thought
to be late 1944, off Sumatra, and may have been taken shortly after the
photograph of Wager preparing to come alongside Indomitable.
Photograph
used with kind permission of Paul and Maurice Whiteing.
For a fascinating
photo journal of Leading Air Mechanic Maurice C Whiteing's service in HMS
Indomitable see:
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2Memoir-Indomitable-Whiteing1.htm