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Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:13 am

The Inspector wrote:And now, since the Enlisted chow hall /E club that did sit there has been paved over the Snohomish County Sheriffs Deputies have had to find a new place to avoid being on the streets.


Haha, bummer for them! And they haven't replaced the picnic table, either. You ever stand on that thing? It was termites holding hands!

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:24 pm

It is going to be marked as a A/C from VF-12 or VBF-12 from the USS Randoph. It will have the number 32 in 2 ft high letters in front of the insignia, a white vertical with 3 blue stripes, and white control surfaces. It was pretty muched masked today.

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:40 pm

Does anyone know what the current status of the Weeks F6F is?

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:20 am

Works for me!

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Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:13 am

Fun! The old Heller 1/72 kit came with those markings back in the 1970s.

August

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:53 am

VF-12 old #32 will look nice, even though I'm a little partial to another VF (11) :wink: Source, NMNA archives

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F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-12 launching from the deck of the USS Randolph (CV-15) 5/1945, notice the #32's have been re-applied in these first two photos. I'm sure the FHC folks will go with the evenly lined #'s

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F6F-3 Hellcats of VF-12 on the deck of the USS Randolph (CV-15) 5/1945, looks like #66 has some kills on her.

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F6F-5 Hellcat from VF-12/VBF-12 heading toward ditching portside of the USS Randolph (CV-15) 4/30/1945

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F6F-5 Hellcat of VF-12/VBF-12 watch the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) burning from the deck of USS Randolph (CV-15) 5/11/1945

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:12 am

Nice excavation work again Mark!!!!! I'm sort of partial to the earlier, hastily applied numbers if they provide a small paragraph explaining that there wasan't time to do a showcar application in the middle of a war and they are supposedly all about 'when it was..' correctness (never mind the paint on the P-40)

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:19 pm

Well my pleasure! :D ... here's another VF-12 Hellcat which I would assume may have had to, or mistakenly, or maybe even a CAG Hellcat that had business on the Yorktown.

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Waves are breaking over the bow of the USS Yorktown (CV-10) of the US Task Force off of Iwo Jima on D-Day. F6F-5 Hellcats of VF-3 and VF-12 are on the deck

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USS Randolph (CV-15) along side repair ship USS Jason ARH-1 at Ulithi Atoll Caroline Islands 13 March 1945 after being hit by a kamikaze on her aft flight deck 11 March 1945

Sorry dudes, can I throw another one in here? I'm on a roll :wink:
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USS Randolph (CV-15)

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A deck crewmen checks equipment in the cockpit of the lead SB2C-4 of Bombing Squadron Twelve VB-12 prior to launch from USS Randoph (CV-15)

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F6F-5 Hellcat from Air Group 12 are lined upon the deck of the USS Randolph (CV-15) 1945, notice a few Corsairs as well.

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SB2C-4 of Bombing Squadron Twelve VB-12

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SB2C-4 of Bombing Squadron Twelve VB-12 in flight over USS Randolph (CV-15) 1945

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:23 pm

Loks like that essbeedoocee is about to do a serious face plant 'take THAT deck!' :lol:

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:19 pm

So I guess it would look cool in formation with ...

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August

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:49 am

I will stop by tomorrow and get some photos, unless its been moved to the paint hangar.

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:33 pm

Fight2FlyPhoto wrote: And they haven't replaced the picnic table, either. You ever stand on that thing? It was termites holding hands!


Hey, I'm a member of that club too. Yikes...I really thought I was gonna be the straw that broke the camel's back sooner of later. Glad to hear there were other "players" too!

Whatever it takes to get a shot over the fence, eh?! :lol:

--Tom

Re: FHC's Hellcat rumbles to life today...

Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:40 pm

k5083 wrote:So I guess it would look cool in formation with ...

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August



Oh heck yeah August!...I sure hope so!!
--Tom
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