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Ensign Darrell C. Bennett, stands beside his plane, a General Motors FM-2 Wildcat fighter, on board USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73), August 1 1944.
Note the pinup art and nickname adorning the engine cowling; what appears to be a Composite Squadron Ten insignia below the cockpit windshield; plane numbers ("27") in white on the wing leading edge and in black under the lip of the cowling; and Ensign's Bennett's flight gear and a .45 pistol carried in a shoulder holster.


 
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Lockheed had a subsidiary named "Vega" that assembled Boeing B17 bombers. And here are some of them. I don't see the chin turrets that would have designated them being the "G" models, so this probably was a batch of "F" models, Thus he picture would date to 1943. Burbank California.

 
That was known as Plant A-1 and used to be adjacent to the Hollywood Burbank Terminal. Now it's a parking lot
 
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