In swmming pools located at stateside training stations, flying personnel learned skills that would save their lives in more unforgiving waters, including egressing from their parachutes. [
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View of the famed "Dilbert Dunker" on board Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. This device trained pilots how to exit their aircraft if its cockpit became submerged after ditching in the water. [
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A close-up view of the "Dilbert Dunker" operated on board Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Florida, during World War II that shows a cartoon featuring the wartime cartoon character named Dilbert, the aviator who never did anything right. [
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The fusealge of a TBF Avenger torpedo-bomber dropped by crane into the waters of the St. Johns River near Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Florida, served to train aviators and aircrewman ditching procedures. [
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During a ditching drill in the St. Johns River near Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Florida, trainees simulated getting a wounded crewman into a life raft. [
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