All in all, that seems correct (as far as the fleet carrier squadron changes) to me, as it seems to generally match the data found here:
Index for Naval Aeronautical Organization, Fiscal Year 1923 through Fiscal Year 1952.
However, I think this is not quite accurate:
... as a result the types of squadrons on Essex Class carriers was reduced to three. In spite of this change, the aircraft complement of their Air Groups remained at its previous level of 21 VF, 36 VSB and 18 VTB.
Authorized strength of VF squadrons should have been at 36 by 1 March 1943 (not that every one had all their alloted aircraft, of course! And in the Pacific, the date was actually sometime in July 1942, before the start of Operation WATCHTOWER, with VF-5, VF-6, VF-72 VF-72 having +/- 36 F4F-4s leaving Pearl), and really there were two VBs (no VS, so technically no VSB, but I guess the aircraft were SBDs SB2Cs).
I'm sure you are aware, but there was another big reorganization about 15 July 1943 (that's the date where VF-3 [Felix the Cat] and VF-6 [Shooting Stars] changed designations), and the two VB squadrons were combined into one, so fleet carrier CVGs then changed composition to 36 VF, 36 VB 18 VT. With this, mostly all of the squadron numbers were brought in line with the air group numbers.
Before the change, CVG-3 (former
Saratoga Air Group) was composed of VF-6, VB-3, VB-13 VT-3, and CVG-6 (former
Enterprise Air Group) was composed of VF-3, VB-1, VB-2 VT-7. Also, CV-10's CVG-5 was composed of VF-1, VB-4, VB-6 VT-5. Afterwards, all the squadrons were inline with the air group number (unless one was attached temporarily to another CVG, such as VF-2 to CVG-6 and VF-18 to CVG-17, etc.).
According to Clark Reynolds in
The Fighting Lady: The New Yorktown in the Pacific War, the pilots from the two combined VB squadrons did NOT get along well on CV-10. IIRC, one VB CO was put under the other, and the "slighted" squadron got upset. This was remedied before the ship entered combat 31 August 1943.
Alot of this type of info can be found here:
Index for Location of U.S. Naval Aircraft (1942 through September 1945).
Lastly, I think the CVL VC squadrons resulted from combining the VSB squadron aircraft with the VT squadron aircraft. Of course, soon thereafter, the VSB component was dropped (SBD wings wouldn't fold, and there wasn't a great deal of space on CVLs!), and the CVLGs were soon recomposed of 24 VF 9 VT.
However, thanks for the overall great original post. There is a lot of good information there. I hope you don't mind my minor corrections.