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Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:45 am

Just gotta put up a few once in awhile 8) All Photo's Are From USFG archives.

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A U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1 Corsair of Marine fighter squadron VMF-213 Hell Hawks is warming up for fight from the flight deck of the escort carrier USS Copahee (ACV-12), on 29 March 1943.

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Aircraft return to the carrier during the Gilberts operation, November 1943. Crewmen in the foreground are sitting on the wing of an SBD-5, as an F6F-3 lands and a TBF-1 taxiies to a parking place on the forward flight deck.

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U.S. Marines of Marine fighter squadron VMF-222 Flying Deuces relaxing in between strikes on a Vought F4U-1 Corsair on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, in April 1944.

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United States Navy aviation cadets check flight boards for last minute instructions at the Naval Air Training Center at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas (USA), November 1942.

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Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" Fighter (Bureau # 5171), of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3) at Naval Air Station, Kaneohe, Oahu, on 29 May 1942, with ground crewmen folding the starboard wing. On 4 June 1942, in the Battle of Midway, this plane was flown by Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach, VF-3's Commanding Officer, during the afternoon combat air patrol defending USS Yorktown (CV-5), wherein Thach probably shot down Lieutenant Joichi Tomonaga, leader of the attacking Japanese torpedo planes.

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U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), 1943-1944.

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U.S. Navy Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo fighters pictured during a training flight from Naval Air Station (NAS) Miami, Florida (USA), 1941-1942.


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SBD flying over NAS Daytona Beach (Florida, USA) in October 1942.

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Three U.S. Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastators assigned to the Naval Operational Training Command at Naval Air Station Miami, Florida (USA), in flight over South Florida, 1942/43. NAS Miami and NAS Ft. Lauderdale were home to Operational Training Units for the instruction of U.S. Navy torpedo-bomber pilots. The last TBD was retired in early 1944.


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U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Rolland N. Rinabarger of Marine fighter squadron VMF-214 Blacksheep in his Vought F4U-1 Corsair at Espiritu Santo in September 1943. Badly shot up by Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Zeros during an early mission to Kahili only two weeks after this photo was taken, Lt. Rinabarger returned to the United States for lengthy treatment. He was still in California (USA) when the Second World War ended.

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Two U.S. Marine Corps Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in 1942.

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View of the forward hangar bay of the first U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Long Island (ACV-1) in June 1942. Grumman F4F-4 Wildcats and Curtiss SOC-3 Seagulls (biplanes) of squadron VGS-1 are spotted.

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A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of fighting squadron VF-1 launches from the hangar deck catapult on board the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) during her shakedown cruise in the waters off Trinidad, 3 June 1943.

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Front view of a Consolidated PBY-2 Catalina on the seaplane ramp at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida (USA). These PBYs were replaced with the PBY-5 in 1943. This picture was taken on 8 January 1942. Naval aircraft Factory N3N-3 trainers are visible in the background.

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Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:09 am

can't ever get enough of the old photos, thanks for posting them

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:49 am

Wow, I never knew some, but not all, WW-2 carriers had side firing hanger deck catapults. Googgled it up and found a lot of info. Most were removed during refits to add a second cat on the flight deck.

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:24 am

File that away for when you decide to build a model of the Yorktown, details, details, details- 8)

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:55 am

Great photos. here's one with an interesting scoreboard on the tails of Hellcats (correction Wildcats) of which I've never seen before.

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Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:06 pm

Ploesti wrote:Great photos. here's one with an interesting scoreboard on the tails of Hellcats of which I've never seen before.

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I don't think I have seen that before. :?

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:43 pm

More obscure stuff. Here is a photo of Cruiser Scouting Squadron Seven (VCS-7). They beached their Curtis Seagulls in England and used second hand Spitfire MK-Vs for Naval gun fire spotting in support of the D-Day landings.

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And what they flew on D-Day. Notice the interesting camo scheme.

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And this photo is interesting as it seems the "bars' have been painted over on this SBD?

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And a great website here. Spend some time searching, some outstanding LIFE photos as well as many US Navy photos covering many years of Naval aviation. Good stuff!

http://navypilotoverseas.wordpress.com/

And one for the Jet folks here.

http://jetpilotoverseas.wordpress.com/

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:17 pm

Really enjoying the Navy training photos of NAS Corpus Christi. I grew up in Corpus and spent a lot of time on the NAS.

Would you happen to have any more photos from the Texas Naval Air Stations?

Mike

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:32 pm

Ploesti wrote:Great photos. here's one with an interesting scoreboard on the tails of Hellcats of which I've never seen before.

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Pic is of Don Runyon, highest scoring Navy F4F pilot. Scroll down here:

http://damageincthegame.com/category/pilots

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/imag ... g11103.jpg

I believe #5193 would make it an F4F-4.

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:48 pm

Correct you are. F4F's in photo and Don Runyon as well. Any idea on scoreboard info?

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:07 pm

Ploesti wrote:Correct you are. F4F's in photo and Don Runyon as well. Any idea on scoreboard info?



Yup...just scroll down and read:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-u ... /f4f-l.htm

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:11 pm

Dan K wrote:
Ploesti wrote:Correct you are. F4F's in photo and Don Runyon as well. Any idea on scoreboard info?



Yup...just scroll down and read:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-u ... /f4f-l.htm


Good job, and I thought I was a good researcher. Miised that one as well and that would make for a great F4F scheme today.

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:33 pm

Great pictures.

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:56 pm

Were the hangar deck catapaults ever used operationally?

Re: Here Is A Few Navy/USMC WWII Types

Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:57 pm

Attn Robbie.....Altho seems many here already saw some of your great pix, they are new to me, so I appraeciate the trouble you took to post them and I have sent them on to other aviation fans especially one who flew Corsairs in USMC in WW2, so he will really enjoy them. (VMF 124). Its a litle before my time with MASS-1, Cherry Pt., 2nd MAW, so the only prop plane we still had was the Skyraider, but I enjoy all the WW2 warbirds and as kids growing up during the WW2 days, of course we knew of all of them. Korea just was ending when I joined USMC in 1954, so I know that Corsairs, and P-51's still played a big role there, but jets took over after that. Tks again. Paul
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