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GREAT BEND ARMY AIR FIELD DENTAL SECTION :


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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.
 
USS Wasp (CV-7), April 1942. Royal Navy Swordfish aircraft with wings folded ready to be sent to hangar deck, somewhere in the Atlantic.

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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.
 
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.
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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