syscom3
Pacific Historian
I saw this in another group.
A Dauntless is going off the side of the USS Cabot. Sept 1943.
A Dauntless is going off the side of the USS Cabot. Sept 1943.
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An Unlucky SBD Dauntless.
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Interesting!
Jim MacDonald
Airman
Here's the accident report for the first accident mentioned in the first page of the Ship's Log.
Mac
And here's the accident report for the crash photo and the 2nd page from the Ship's Log. I have to wonder what the Radioman Cote was feeling about his pilot after two crashes in less than two weeks.
Mac
Mac
And here's the accident report for the crash photo and the 2nd page from the Ship's Log. I have to wonder what the Radioman Cote was feeling about his pilot after two crashes in less than two weeks.
Mac
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Barrett
Senior Airman
Photo clearly shows stbd wing in the water, as per the first report but the other, clearly the same incident, says on landing gofigger. No tailhook evident in the photo, which presumably = a launch but the sternward view indicates landing. Anyway, the SBD was a sweetheart through the stall. When we restored ours The Word was "Flies like a big SNJ" and that was true. Thing is: most planes of the era stalled left wing first, which is why the pitot tube went there.
fubar57
General
