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Skywalker Jin

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Oct 23, 2025
Hello there, this is Skywalker.
A friend of mine is making a 1/700 Yorktown and her status will be 1942.6.4's initial strike wave.
He is consulting me for specific numbers of those aircrafts.
From now I have gained the arrangement of cats but the SBDs and the TBDs are remained nearly blank(though I can imply part of them from losses)
So I am here for confirming side numbers of the SBDs and the TBDs

According to Shattered Sword P1972 and photodocs,two F4F-3s and one TBD-1 were triced in the hangar, their numbers are needed as well.
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A photo indicates a wing of F4F-3(note this insignia)
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A photo indicates there was a TBD
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PS:There's inconsistency between photo and arrangement document and I wonder there should be something being confused.
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Description:A U.S. Navy Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat of fighting squadron VF-3 from the USS Yorktown (CV-5) lands on the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), circa 15:30 h, 4 June 1942. The plane "3-F-5" was piloted by Ens. H. A. Bass, USNR, who had forgotten to close the firing circuit switch, and had inadvertently pressed the firing key when the plane stopped suddenly. The six 12.7 mm machine guns opened fire, but the bullets passed harmlessly over the deck.
 
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I have found this in Osprey's TBD Devastator units of the US Navy(author Barrett Tillman&TomTullis)
 
YORKTOWN AIR GROUP 1 June 1942

VF-3 Tactical Organization
Bu No Side # Assigned Pilot
5171 3-F-1 LCDR John Smith Thach
5170 3-F-2 ENS Robert Allen Murray Dibb
5169 3-F-3 LTJG Brainard Tucker Macomber
5168 3-F-4 ENS Edgar R Bassett
5167 3-F-5 MACH Tom Fred Cheek
5165 3-F-6 ENS Daniel Crysdale Sheedy
5152 3-F-7 LTJG Richard Gunter Crommelin
5151 3-F-8 ENS John Burton Edward Bain
5150 3-F-9 ENS Richard Lee Wright
5149 3-F-10 ENS George F Markham Jr
5148 3-F-11 LTJG Elbert Scott McCuskey
5147 3-F-12 ENS Mark L Bright
5244 3-F-13 (was 3-F-26) LTJG William Nicholas Leonard
5245 3-F-14 (was 3-F-27) ENS John Paul Adams
5144 3-F-15 LTJG Walter Albert Haas
5143 3-F-16 ENS George A Hopper Jr
5142 3-F-17 MACH Doyle Clayton Barnes
5080 3-F-18 ENS Milton Tootle Jr
5066 3-F-19 LTJG Arthur James Brassfield
5049 3-F-20 ENS Harry Bonaparte Gibbs
5153 3-F-21 LTJG Edward Duran Mattson
5050 3-F-22 ENS Horace Ancel Bass Jr
5093 3-F-23 LTJG William Stone Woollen
5239 3-F-24 LTJG William Wesley Barnes Jr
5243 3-F-25 Spare
5145 3-F-13 original 13 - 29 May 42 Deck Crash
5146 3-F-14 original 14 - 29 May 42 Deck Crash
not assigned ENS Robert C Evans
not assigned ENS Van H Morris
not assigned ENS Harold Joseph William Eppler

VB-3 Tactical Organization
BuNo Side # Assigned Pilot / Gunner
4663 3-B-1 LCDR Maxwell Franklin Leslie / William Earl Gallagher, ARM1c
4662 3-B-2 LTJG Paul Algodte Holmberg / George Albert LaPlant, AMM2c
unkn 3-B-3 ENS Paul Wahl Schlegel / Jack Alvan Shropshire, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-4 ENS Robert Keith Campbell / Horace Henry Craig, AMM1c
unkn 3-B-5 ENS Aldon W Hansen / Joseph Vernon Godfrey, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-6 ENS Robert Haines Benson / Frederick Paul Bergeron, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-7 LTJG Gordon Alvin Sherwood / Harmon Donald Bennett, ARM2c
unkn 3-B-8 ENS Roy Maurice Isaman / Sidney Kay Weaver, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-9 ENS Phillip Walker Cobb / Clarence E Zimmershead, ARM2c
3246 3-B-10 LT Harold Sydney Bottomley / David Frederick Johnson, AMM2c
3247 3-B-11 ENS Charles S Lane / Jack Charles Henning, ARM2c
3248 3-B-12 ENS John Clarence Butler / David Donald Berg, ARM3c
3209 3-B-13 LT DeWitt Wood Shumway / Ray Edgar Coons, ARM1c
3242 3-B-14 ENS Robert Martin Elder / Leslie Alan Till, RM3c
3238 3-B-15 ENS Bunyon Randolph Cooner / Clifton R Bassett, AOM2c
3237 3-B-16 LTJG Osborne Beeman Wiseman / Grant Ulysses Dawn, ARM3c
4675 3-B-17 ENS Milford Austin Merrill / Dallas Joseph Bergeron, ARM3c
4604 3-B-18 non operational
3244 3-B-unkn
3245 3-B-unkn
3233 3-B-unkn
4602 3-B-unkn
4610 3-B-unkn
4625 3-B-unkn
4642 3-B-unkn
not assigned ENS Jack Rugen / Charles C Brassel, AOM1c
not assigned ENS Raymond Morrow Reynolds / Charles Westbrook Albright, ARM2c

VT-3 Tactical Organization
Bu No Side # Assigned Pilot / Gunner
285 3-T-1 LCDR Lance Edward Massey / Leo Edward Perry, ACRM(AA)
286 3-T-2 CAP Wilhelm George Esders / Robert Boyd Brazier, ARM2c
303 3-T-3 MACH Harry Lee Corl / Lloyd Fred Childers, ARM3c
310 3-T-4 LTJG Curtis William Howard / Harold C Lundy Jr, ARM1c
312 3-T-5 ENS Leonard L Smith / Raymond Joseph Darce, ARM3c
340 3-T-6 not operational
341 3-T-7 LT Patrick Henry Hart / John Ralph Cole, ARM1c
343 3-T-8 ENS David John Roche / Charles Lee Moore, ARM3c
354 3-T-9 ENS Carl August Osberg / Richard Matthew Hanson, ARM3c
361 3-T-10 LTJG Richard Wayne Suesens / Troy L Barkley, ARM2c
375 3-T-11 ENS Oswald A Powers / Joseph Emile Mandeville, SEA2c
381 3-T-12 ENS Wesley Frank Osmus / Benjamin R Dodson Jr, ARM3c
1511 3-T-13 CH MACH John William Haas / William A Phillips Jr, ARM3c
1513 3-T-14 not operational
333 3-T-15 not operational
not assigned LTJG Fred Cone Herriman / Wendell M Anderson, ARM2c
not assigned ENS Gerald Russell Stablein / Richard C Groad, ARM3c
not assigned ENS Otho Henry Schneider / Jack O Bacholette, ARM3c
not assigned ENS Donald Edward Weissenborn / Hartford K Parks, SEA1c
not assigned ENS John M Armitage / Fred A Austin, ARM3c
not assigned MACH John Russell Baker / David H Lane, ARM3c
not assigned RAD ELEC Werner Innocenz Weis / Russell W Crick, ARM3c

VB-5 Tactical Organization
Bu No Side # Assigned Pilot / Gunner
4547 5-B-1 LT Wallace Clark Short Jr / John W Trott, ACRM(PA)
4558 5-B-2 ENS Carl Herman Horenburger / Lynn Raymond Forshee, ARM3c
4629 5-B-3 ENS Leif Walther Larsen / John F Gardner, ARM3c
4652 5-B-4 LT Harlan Rockey Dickson / Joseph Michael Lynch Jr, ARM2c
unkn 5-B-5 LTJG Nels Luther A Berger / Otto Russell Phelps, ACRM(PA)
unkn 5-B-6 ENS John David Bridgers / William Johnson, ARM3c
4650 5-B-7 LT Sam Adams / Joseph John Karrol, ARM1c
unkn 5-B-8 LTJG David Render Berry / Earnest A Clegg, ARM2c
unkn 5-B-9 ENS John N Ammen Jr / John Iacovazzi, ARM3c
unkn 5-B-10 LTJG Charles Neal Conatser / Henry P McGowan Jr, ARM2c
4688 5-B-11 ENS Benjamin Gifford Preston / Harold R Cowden, ARM1c
unkn 5-B-12 ENS Robert D Gibson / Wilburn D Harp, ARM3c
4637 5-B-13 LT John Ludwig Nielsen / Walter Dean Straub, ACRM(PA)
unkn 5-B-14 LTJG William Francis Christie / Alvin A Sobel, ARM1c
4634 5-B-15 ENS Liston R Comer / Harold J Wilger, ARM3c
4553 5-B-16 LTJG Henry Martin McDowell / Eugene C Strickland, ARM2c
unkn 5-B-17 LTJG Raymond Phillip Kline / Norbert A Fives, ARM3c
unkn 5-B-18 ENS Richard Frederick Wolfe / Leon L Getz, ARM3c
unkn 5-B-19 ENS Gerald S Richey / Otis Albert Phelps, ACRM(PA)
4679 CYAG LCDR Oscar Pederson / assigned unkn
4518 5-B-unkn
4530 5-B-unkn
4538 5-B-unkn
4551 5-B-unkn
4559 5-B-unkn
4588 5-B-unkn
4622 5-B-unkn
4683 5-B-unkn
4690 5-B-unkn
not assigned ENS Raymond Miligi Jr / William R Mohler, ARM3c
not assigned ENS Elmer A Conzett / Gerald E Hollinsworth, SEA1c
 
YORKTOWN AIR GROUP 1 June 1942

VF-3 Tactical Organization
Bu No Side # Assigned Pilot
5171 3-F-1 LCDR John Smith Thach
5170 3-F-2 ENS Robert Allen Murray Dibb
5169 3-F-3 LTJG Brainard Tucker Macomber
5168 3-F-4 ENS Edgar R Bassett
5167 3-F-5 MACH Tom Fred Cheek
5165 3-F-6 ENS Daniel Crysdale Sheedy
5152 3-F-7 LTJG Richard Gunter Crommelin
5151 3-F-8 ENS John Burton Edward Bain
5150 3-F-9 ENS Richard Lee Wright
5149 3-F-10 ENS George F Markham Jr
5148 3-F-11 LTJG Elbert Scott McCuskey
5147 3-F-12 ENS Mark L Bright
5244 3-F-13 (was 3-F-26) LTJG William Nicholas Leonard
5245 3-F-14 (was 3-F-27) ENS John Paul Adams
5144 3-F-15 LTJG Walter Albert Haas
5143 3-F-16 ENS George A Hopper Jr
5142 3-F-17 MACH Doyle Clayton Barnes
5080 3-F-18 ENS Milton Tootle Jr
5066 3-F-19 LTJG Arthur James Brassfield
5049 3-F-20 ENS Harry Bonaparte Gibbs
5153 3-F-21 LTJG Edward Duran Mattson
5050 3-F-22 ENS Horace Ancel Bass Jr
5093 3-F-23 LTJG William Stone Woollen
5239 3-F-24 LTJG William Wesley Barnes Jr
5243 3-F-25 Spare
5145 3-F-13 original 13 - 29 May 42 Deck Crash
5146 3-F-14 original 14 - 29 May 42 Deck Crash
not assigned ENS Robert C Evans
not assigned ENS Van H Morris
not assigned ENS Harold Joseph William Eppler

VB-3 Tactical Organization
BuNo Side # Assigned Pilot / Gunner
4663 3-B-1 LCDR Maxwell Franklin Leslie / William Earl Gallagher, ARM1c
4662 3-B-2 LTJG Paul Algodte Holmberg / George Albert LaPlant, AMM2c
unkn 3-B-3 ENS Paul Wahl Schlegel / Jack Alvan Shropshire, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-4 ENS Robert Keith Campbell / Horace Henry Craig, AMM1c
unkn 3-B-5 ENS Aldon W Hansen / Joseph Vernon Godfrey, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-6 ENS Robert Haines Benson / Frederick Paul Bergeron, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-7 LTJG Gordon Alvin Sherwood / Harmon Donald Bennett, ARM2c
unkn 3-B-8 ENS Roy Maurice Isaman / Sidney Kay Weaver, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-9 ENS Phillip Walker Cobb / Clarence E Zimmershead, ARM2c
3246 3-B-10 LT Harold Sydney Bottomley / David Frederick Johnson, AMM2c
3247 3-B-11 ENS Charles S Lane / Jack Charles Henning, ARM2c
3248 3-B-12 ENS John Clarence Butler / David Donald Berg, ARM3c
3209 3-B-13 LT DeWitt Wood Shumway / Ray Edgar Coons, ARM1c
3242 3-B-14 ENS Robert Martin Elder / Leslie Alan Till, RM3c
3238 3-B-15 ENS Bunyon Randolph Cooner / Clifton R Bassett, AOM2c
3237 3-B-16 LTJG Osborne Beeman Wiseman / Grant Ulysses Dawn, ARM3c
4675 3-B-17 ENS Milford Austin Merrill / Dallas Joseph Bergeron, ARM3c
4604 3-B-18 non operational
3244 3-B-unkn
3245 3-B-unkn
3233 3-B-unkn
4602 3-B-unkn
4610 3-B-unkn
4625 3-B-unkn
4642 3-B-unkn
not assigned ENS Jack Rugen / Charles C Brassel, AOM1c
not assigned ENS Raymond Morrow Reynolds / Charles Westbrook Albright, ARM2c

VT-3 Tactical Organization
Bu No Side # Assigned Pilot / Gunner
285 3-T-1 LCDR Lance Edward Massey / Leo Edward Perry, ACRM(AA)
286 3-T-2 CAP Wilhelm George Esders / Robert Boyd Brazier, ARM2c
303 3-T-3 MACH Harry Lee Corl / Lloyd Fred Childers, ARM3c
310 3-T-4 LTJG Curtis William Howard / Harold C Lundy Jr, ARM1c
312 3-T-5 ENS Leonard L Smith / Raymond Joseph Darce, ARM3c
340 3-T-6 not operational
341 3-T-7 LT Patrick Henry Hart / John Ralph Cole, ARM1c
343 3-T-8 ENS David John Roche / Charles Lee Moore, ARM3c
354 3-T-9 ENS Carl August Osberg / Richard Matthew Hanson, ARM3c
361 3-T-10 LTJG Richard Wayne Suesens / Troy L Barkley, ARM2c
375 3-T-11 ENS Oswald A Powers / Joseph Emile Mandeville, SEA2c
381 3-T-12 ENS Wesley Frank Osmus / Benjamin R Dodson Jr, ARM3c
1511 3-T-13 CH MACH John William Haas / William A Phillips Jr, ARM3c
1513 3-T-14 not operational
333 3-T-15 not operational
not assigned LTJG Fred Cone Herriman / Wendell M Anderson, ARM2c
not assigned ENS Gerald Russell Stablein / Richard C Groad, ARM3c
not assigned ENS Otho Henry Schneider / Jack O Bacholette, ARM3c
not assigned ENS Donald Edward Weissenborn / Hartford K Parks, SEA1c
not assigned ENS John M Armitage / Fred A Austin, ARM3c
not assigned MACH John Russell Baker / David H Lane, ARM3c
not assigned RAD ELEC Werner Innocenz Weis / Russell W Crick, ARM3c

VB-5 Tactical Organization
Bu No Side # Assigned Pilot / Gunner
4547 5-B-1 LT Wallace Clark Short Jr / John W Trott, ACRM(PA)
4558 5-B-2 ENS Carl Herman Horenburger / Lynn Raymond Forshee, ARM3c
4629 5-B-3 ENS Leif Walther Larsen / John F Gardner, ARM3c
4652 5-B-4 LT Harlan Rockey Dickson / Joseph Michael Lynch Jr, ARM2c
unkn 5-B-5 LTJG Nels Luther A Berger / Otto Russell Phelps, ACRM(PA)
unkn 5-B-6 ENS John David Bridgers / William Johnson, ARM3c
4650 5-B-7 LT Sam Adams / Joseph John Karrol, ARM1c
unkn 5-B-8 LTJG David Render Berry / Earnest A Clegg, ARM2c
unkn 5-B-9 ENS John N Ammen Jr / John Iacovazzi, ARM3c
unkn 5-B-10 LTJG Charles Neal Conatser / Henry P McGowan Jr, ARM2c
4688 5-B-11 ENS Benjamin Gifford Preston / Harold R Cowden, ARM1c
unkn 5-B-12 ENS Robert D Gibson / Wilburn D Harp, ARM3c
4637 5-B-13 LT John Ludwig Nielsen / Walter Dean Straub, ACRM(PA)
unkn 5-B-14 LTJG William Francis Christie / Alvin A Sobel, ARM1c
4634 5-B-15 ENS Liston R Comer / Harold J Wilger, ARM3c
4553 5-B-16 LTJG Henry Martin McDowell / Eugene C Strickland, ARM2c
unkn 5-B-17 LTJG Raymond Phillip Kline / Norbert A Fives, ARM3c
unkn 5-B-18 ENS Richard Frederick Wolfe / Leon L Getz, ARM3c
unkn 5-B-19 ENS Gerald S Richey / Otis Albert Phelps, ACRM(PA)
4679 CYAG LCDR Oscar Pederson / assigned unkn
4518 5-B-unkn
4530 5-B-unkn
4538 5-B-unkn
4551 5-B-unkn
4559 5-B-unkn
4588 5-B-unkn
4622 5-B-unkn
4683 5-B-unkn
4690 5-B-unkn
not assigned ENS Raymond Miligi Jr / William R Mohler, ARM3c
not assigned ENS Elmer A Conzett / Gerald E Hollinsworth, SEA1c
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