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

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.

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

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

August

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


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


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.


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


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

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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)

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Well my pleasure! ... 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.


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


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

USS Randolph (CV-15)


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)


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.


SB2C-4 of Bombing Squadron Twelve VB-12


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

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

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



August

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

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?!

--Tom

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