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[syscom3]

Wham Bam! of the Netherlands East Indies Air Force at Nerauke, Dutch New Guinea, 1944

 

[Viking1066]

3-T-14 at Oakland, California, 1939 USNF

 

[Viking1066]

A formation of USMC SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers somewhere in the Pacific (9) INHG

 

[Viking1066]

SB2U-2 (BuNo 1327) of Fighting 2 at NAS North Island July 1939.This SB2U was used as a utility aircraft by the Flying Chiefs of VF-2 SWIS

 

[Viking1066]

Vought SU-1 Corsair (BUNO A-9068) of circa 1933-34. Note Anti-Submarine Squadron 1 (VS-1) insignia and "E" award painted below the cockpit HIST

 

[Viking1066]

A Marine SB2U 1-MF-19, at Bourne Field Virgin Islands during 1938 The USMC were stationed here during maneuvers MACH

 

[Viking1066]

A formation of USMC SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers on a transfer flight between Pearl Harbor and Midway Island, 1942 (3) INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Avro 652A Anson III 4ADS London 1940-1946 AIRH

 

[Greg Boeser]

A formation of USMC SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers on a transfer flight between Pearl Harbor and Midway Island, 1942 (3) INHG
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Not in those markings. Sometime after mid-'43.

 

[CATCH 22]

A formation of USMC SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers on a transfer flight between Pearl Harbor and Midway Island, 1942 (3) INHG
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IMHO you mismatched the photo and the text. The formation mentioned is the one seen in many photos before, in the 2-tone camo with stars with no bars.

 

[Viking1066]

IMHO you mismatched the photo and the text. The formation mentioned is as seen in many photos before in the 2-tone camo with stars with no bars.

Very possible. There were around 40 of them.

 

[CATCH 22]

Very possible. There were around 40 of them.

IT's your post 27783.

 

[Viking1066]

Barracuda of 812 NAS landing on HMS Vengeance after operations over Hong Kong SAFO

 

[Viking1066]

Loire 130 being hoisted by a crane with the crew members visible. The aircraft was armed with two single 7.5 mm Darne machine guns in open positions on the upper fuselage and could carry a 165-pound (75 kg) bomb on the struts under each wing INHG

 

[Viking1066]

HMS Implacable sailing from Sydney Harbor with an 'Alpha' range of Seafires SAFO

 

[Viking1066]

Loire ashore on her beaching gear INHG

 

[Viking1066]

HMS Pioneer in Sydney Harbor SAFO

 

[Viking1066]

Aerial shot of an F4F-3 of VMF-121 in the overall light gray scheme authorized on December 1940 INHG

 

[Viking1066]

A formation of SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers of Bombing Squadron (VB) 10 off USS Enterprise (CV 6) during a mission against Palau March 1944 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

3-T-12, 13 and 14, 1941 USNF