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[Viking1066]

TBM-3 modified to TBM-3D night attack Avenger EAST

 

[Warspite63]

You can't fool me-those aren't Buffaloes-they're P-40s…..

They SHOULD have been building P-39s (runs for the door..........)

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[flypaper2222]

Curtiss opened a second Buffalo plant but I do not know when. Presumably about that time. It was definitely in operation by April 1942.

From what I just read the second plant was opened close to the Buffalo airport which was just out side of Buffalo proper. The information stated the new plant built P-40's and C-46's so if thats true, and I'm not saying it is, this picture and all the other Life pictures from this series is at the new plant and they were still forced to work outside .

 

[MiTasol]

As far as I know the early P-40s were built at the #1 plant and later at both plants but that is only from non primary sources.

I have never seen a date for opening plant 2. Maps of Buffalo of the time would give an idea but there probably are not many around on the net and I am too busy to check.

Somewhere I have the addresses of both the plants in operation in about 43 (in parts of an inspectors handbook)

 

[Viking1066]

Overloaded escort carrier, USS Long Island (CVE-1) underway off California on 10 June 1944, acting as an aircraft transport LASS

 

[Viking1066]

OS2U Kingfisher being recovered by the USS Missouri (BB-63) summer 1944 REDD

 

[flypaper2222]

 

[syscom3]

Overloaded escort carrier, USS Long Island (CVE-1) underway off California on 10 June 1944, acting as an aircraft transport LASS
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Are those P47's?

 

[Glider]

I was looking at the biplane at the back. I have no idea hat that could be

 

[GTX]

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Could make for a good diorama idea

 

[Frog]

I was looking at the biplane at the back. I have no idea hat that could be

They seem to be from back to front : Grumman J2-F, Douglas SBD, Grumman F6-F.

 

[Viking1066]

HMS Avenger (D14) (converted 9,000-ton American type C3 Liberty ship SS Rio Hudson) underway in rough seas, date, and location unknown. Note the unusual camouflage scheme on her flight deck L

ASS

 

[Viking1066]

Martin B-10 variant of the 23d Bombardment Squadron taken in 1941 over Oahu, Hawaii WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Keystone B-5s of Luke Field's 72nd Bombardment Squadron pay a call to Wheeler 1930s JIVE

 

[Viking1066]

USN Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina VP-61 Aleutian Islands March 1943 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

U.S. Navy Martin PBM-1 Mariner of Patrol Squadron 55 (VP-55) is hoisted on board the seaplane tender USS Albemarle (AV-5), in 1941 WIKI

 

[CATCH 22]

U.S. Navy Martin PBM-1 Mariner of Patrol Squadron 55 (VP-55) is hoisted on board the seaplane tender USS Albemarle (AV-5), in 1941 WIKI
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Note the retractable wing floats - only PBM-1 had those. All later variants and models had the fixed ones. The folding mechanism was really heavy and soon deleted.
Below a photo in colour of the same a/c 55 P1 (source is obvious):

 

[c1951]

USN Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina VP-61 Aleutian Islands March 1943 REDD
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Brilliant image

 

[c1951]

HMS Avenger (D14) (converted 9,000-ton American type C3 Liberty ship SS Rio Hudson) underway in rough seas, date, and location unknown. Note the unusual camouflage scheme on her flight deck LView attachment 849550ASS

Is that Sea Hurricanes?