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[syscom3]

Serving with the Royal Air Force are many officers and men of the Belgian Air Force. After a short period of training to familiarize them with British aircraft and technique, they are drafted to operational squadrons in which many men are already pulling their weight. Belgian pilots examining a cockpit in an R.A.F. fighter plane, March 10, 1941.

 

[Viking1066]

USMC SBD-3 Dauntless (2) INHG

 

[Viking1066]

An overall Light Gray SB2U-3, 2-S-16, of VMS-2 on the ramp at MCAS Ewa, Hawaii in 1941 BIBE

 

[Viking1066]

An SB2U-2 Vindicator ofVS-41 High Hats takes off USS RANGER late 1941 RANGER remained in the Atlantic most of the war and operated SB2U longer than other carriers NATA

 

[Viking1066]

Another view of the Dauntlesses from a stateside training command INHG

 

[Viking1066]

AVES Aviation Mechanic Barbara Stroud, NAS Jacksonville INHG

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[MIflyer]

F2A-1on a factory test flight.

 

[Viking1066]

USS WASP (CV-7)underway during early 1942 with three VS-72 SB2U-2 Vindicators on flight deck NATA

 

[Viking1066]

WASPs with AT-6 Texan INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Wings completely folded as SBC-3's of VS-6 fly by overhead 1941 USNF

 

[MiTasol]

WASPs with AT-6 Texan INHG
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Wrong flaps for any T-6. They all used split flaps.

 

[Frog]

Wings completely folded as SBC-3's of VS-6 fly by overhead 1941 USNF
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Disguised as Douglas TBDs...

 

[YavorD]

Wrong flaps for any T-6. They all used split flaps.

Going that way the next in the list is a Vultee BT-13 in some form

 

[MIflyer]

 

[Greg Boeser]

Disguised as Douglas TBDs...

The TBDs are on the ground. The SBCs are in the air.

 

[syscom3]

A group of smiling American airmen, all volunteers who joined the Royal Air Force and formed their own "Eagle Squadron," seen at an R.A.F. airfield, somewhere in England, on March 13, 1941, with one of their fighter planes in background. They are left to right; Pilot Officer Charles Edward Bateman, of San Gabriel, California; Pilot Officer William Henry Nichols, of San Carlos, California; Pilot Officer Stanley Michel Kolendorski, of Lakehurst, New Jersey; Squadron- leader W.E.G. Taylor, of New York City, Commanding-Officer of the Squadron; Pilot Officer Andrew Mamedoff, of Thompson, Connecticut; Pilot Officer Fugene Quimby Tobin of Los Angeles, California; Pilot Officer Nathaniel Maranz, of New York City; Pilot Officer Luke Elbert Allen, of Ignatio, Colorado, unknown, man behind also unknown, Pilot Officer Gregory Augustus Daymond, of San Francisco, and Pilot Officer Sam Alfred Mauriello, of Astoria, Long Island, New York.

 

[Viking1066]

French navy crewmen board their V-156-F of AB 1 during late 1939 MUSE

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman Avenger Mk.II JZ466 of 848 NAS from HMS Formidable DEST

 

[Viking1066]

Floatplane ramp at Aalborg, Denmark in August 1940 visible in the foreground are a pair of Arado Ar 196A-4, in the background are several Heinkel He 59s INHG