These are black what means the flare. IMHO that's the 4.5-inch reconnaissance or target flare.
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These are black what means the flare. IMHO that's the 4.5-inch reconnaissance or target flare.
Elvis
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I think you just answered your own question.
manta22
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I have never seen a photo of the Tokyo Imperial Palace bomb damage (except aerial photos)- much less in color. About 1948-
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syscom3
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USS Wasp (CV-7), April 1942. Royal Navy Swordfish aircraft with wings folded ready to be sent to hangar deck, somewhere in the Atlantic.
Glider
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I would love to know what the USN aircrew thought, when they first saw a Swordfish up close.
Warspite63
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My guesses: 1) Did we travel through a wormhole back to WW1?; and 2) They attacked the Bismarck in THESE????? Respect!!
Reluctant Poster
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Probbably not a lot. They were flying biplanes up to the end of 1940. They became fully monoplane in Jan 1941.
Make that Feb/Mar 1942.
VB-8 & VS-8 on the Hornet didn't trade their SBC-4 biplane dive bombers for SBD-3 until she left for the Pacific in March 1942.
As for the fighter squadrons is was much later in 1941 before F2A and F4F completely replaced the earlier biplane F2F/F3F series. Only Saratoga's VF-3 received F2A-1 in 1940, F2A-2 went to VF-2 & -3 in 1941. F2A-3 were only ordered in Jan 1941. Only 22 F4F-3 were delivered to the USN by the end of 1940 for VF-4 & -7.
812 squadron took passage on Wasp from 21-24 April 1942 when she returned from Gibraltar to Britain between Operations Calendar & Bowery to fly off Spitfires to Malta. 812 had been on Ark Royal until she was sunk in Nov 1941.
Reluctant Poster
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I was specifically referring to Wasp. As you note other USN carriers operated biplanes after Wasp went mono. As I have posted in the past when the Battle of Britain was being fought the USN was largely a biplane navy.
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Droptank found in Germany 1944
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syscom3
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SB2U-2 Vindicator with Scouting Squadron Seventy-Two (VS-72) pictured sitting on the deck edge elevator of USS Wasp
(CV-7) looking aft and down from aft end of the gun platform. Shows elevator between decks. Picture taken at Quincy,
MA. June 1940.
(CV-7) looking aft and down from aft end of the gun platform. Shows elevator between decks. Picture taken at Quincy,
MA. June 1940.
N4521U
Plastic Pirate
72 squadron must have been made up of aircraft not needed in full squadrons, like VF(N)72 night fighters.
stug3
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B-25s of a CAF USAAF Composite Wing escorted by P-51s, 1945
Elvis
1st Sergeant
Eight 50's (I suppose 10, if you swung the turret around) AND a 75mm.
THAT'S firepower!
THAT'S firepower!
manta22
Banned
One of the questions on my physics exam was if all the B-25 guns fired forward how much would the plane airspeed slow down?
