From Bayou Renaissance Man comes this excellent post.
"The good people at Vintage Wings of Canada have produced a wonderful
photographic essay about the
Landing Signal Officer, the person responsible for guiding planes to a safe landing aboard an aircraft carrier."
He included a few pictures from the site and I give you one to gain your interest to hit the link below...............................
During World War II, Batsman Lieutenant Malcolm Brown, his name painted
in white on the back of his Irwin flying jacket, warmly bundled up
against the cold North Atlantic with flight boots, works a
Supermarine Seafire down to the deck of
HMS Indomitable.
On 14 July 1955 Lieutenant Commander Jay Alkire, USNR, of the
VF-124 "Stingrays", Carrier Air Group Twelve (CVG-12), aboard the
USS Hancock
(CVA-19) was far too low as he reached the round down (the rounded
aftermost edge of the flight deck). In this photo, we see him pitch his
F7U-3 Cutlass
up drastically in an last minute attempt to avoid striking the stern of
the ship. Ted Reilly, a U.S. Navy Landing Signal Officer, runs for his
life.
The Landing Signal Officer, Immortalized
