Viking1066
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TBM-3 modified to TBM-3D night attack Avenger EAST
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They SHOULD have been building P-39s (runs for the door..........)You can't fool me-those aren't Buffaloes-they're P-40s…..
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 .Curtiss opened a second Buffalo plant but I do not know when. Presumably about that time. It was definitely in operation by April 1942.
Are those P47's?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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Could make for a good diorama idea
I was looking at the biplane at the back. I have no idea hat that could be
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.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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Brilliant imageUSN Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina VP-61 Aleutian Islands March 1943 REDD
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Is that Sea Hurricanes?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