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OS2U, NH-1, JRF-5, and PBM at NAS, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


OS2U Warmed-Up Before Going into Water for Take-Off.


NATS R5D on Hickam Field.


NATS R4D is Parked Near Operations Building of South American Airport.

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Ground Crewmen Work on F4F at Naval Air Station.


Loading Bombs on PBY in the Aleutians.


Ground Crewman Stands By With Fire Bottle As Plane Captain Warms Up F8F.


Inspector Checks on Progress of PV-1 at Vega Aircraft Plant in Burbank, California.

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Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory, Baltimore, Maryland.


Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory, Baltimore, Maryland.


Avengers, F6Fs and SBDs on the USS Ranger (CV-4).


F4F-4s and SBD-3s on the USS Ranger (CV-4).

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E.L. Rodgers and W.E. Boggess Replace Broken Landing Gear of SNJ at NAS Norfolk.


Aviation Mechanic Works on Engine of F6F.


Crewmen Clean Fuselage of TBF.


Aviation Mechanic Works on Propeller.


P-40's in the Aleutians.

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Stern View of USS Yorktown (CVA-10) Tied Up at Pier, NOB, Norfolk, VA.


USS Saratoga shown tied up at pier.


Three R4Ds Fly in Formation Over Florida Keys on Way South with Mail and Supplies.






PBY Over Ocean on Patrol.


Activities of a PBM Squadron at Naval Air Station.


Two Members of Alert Crew Stand by Fire Truck at Naval Air Station, with F4F in Foreground.


Wounded Marine being loaded on transport plane at Vella Lavella.


TBF Takes Off from Flight Deck of USS Yorktown (CVA-10).

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USS Wasp (CV-7) at Sea, ca. 1942

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Mark...as always....

Thank you for sharing and each and every pic is worthy of a thousand questions. And at multiple levels...

So I'll start with the first pic on your recent posts.

Why did the Navy go to single gun on the tail gunner on the PBJ vs. the aircorp B-25? Weight?

Another one.

TP-40's????

I don't see any TP-40's.
All the aircraft seem to be Presentation or Sponsored aircraft. The C-46's have writing on the nose and the P-40's have writing on the cowling under the exhausts.
I wonder if the desert camo aircraft are destined for Britain or France due to lack of U.S. National insignia? Looks like there could be a S/N on the rear fuselage in black.

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Thanks for taking the time to post the photos, Mark.

Michel, I wonder if the PBJ photo is of an experimental 20mm installation in the tail?

Mac

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PBJ-1D BuNo. 35107 https://www.history.navy.mil/content/hi ... 15718.html

PBJ-1D BuNo.35094 with single gun. https://www.history.navy.mil/content/hi ... 87960.html

http://www.microworks.net/pacific/aviat ... tchell.htm
Armament was also an area where the PBJ-1Ds were heavily modified. Like the USAAF's Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces, these aircraft were modified into strafers by installing four fixed 50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns in the nose and two 50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns in blisters on both sides of the forward fuselage. Another modification was the installation of 50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns in the small waist windows between the dorsal turret and the tail; later PBJ-1Ds were modified with the larger "bay windows" of the B-25H and J. The last major modification was the addition of a tail turret with one 50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine gun. The canopy of the tail gun was similar to that used on the B-25H and J.

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Love the yellow Howard GH (with green instrument stripe) in the photo at the top of page 4.
Can't say I've seen a white Kingfisher before.

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Wonderful shots, absolute treasures, all of them.

Thanks Mark. The Kodachrome is just great!

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I searched my Dads logbook for the PBJ-1D, BuNo 35107; close but, no cigar! Both 35103 and 35108 served in his squadron, VMB-433. The image shows to advantage the installation of the AN/APS-2 search radar where the lower turret would have normally been installed.

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Cheers,

Craig

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