text: Ens. Darrell C. Bennett, USNR, stands beside “Smokey’s Lucky Witch”, his FM-2 Wildcat, on board Gambier Bay, 1 August 1944. Bennett strikes a jaunty pose carrying a Colt .45 cal. M1911A1 pistol in a shoulder holster as he leans on the fuselage and engine cowling, a VC-10 insignia painted below the cockpit windshield, and his Plane No. 27 on the starboard wing. (U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-243864, National Archives and Records Administration, Still Pictures Division, College Park, Md.