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[Capt. Vick]

CV....13?

 

[hal bregg]

CV....13?

Touche, Vick!

Unlucky '13 because of the enormity of received destruction, or rather lucky '13 because he never sank?

 

[Capt. Vick]

Touche, Vick!

Unlucky '13 because of the enormity of received destruction, or rather lucky '13 because he never sank?

 

[Lucky13]

Always a time and a for the biggest "13" of them all....USS Franklin CV-13!

USS Franklin CV-13 War Damage Report No. 56

DECLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL

www.history.navy.mil

 

[Warspite63]

Always a time and a for the biggest "13" of them all....USS Franklin CV-13!

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USS Franklin CV-13 War Damage Report No. 56

DECLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL

www.history.navy.mil

A textbook case of 'How To Do Damage Control'

 

[Frog]

 

[Airframes]

Found on Pinterest, original source unknown.

 

[Airframes]

Found on Pinterest, original source unknown. This and previous shot believed to be the Eastchurch Tempest Wing.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[MIflyer]

NAA Inglewood was in a race with Grumman Bethpage to see how many P-51/F6F they could build in 1 day. Typical count was around 20. Grumman finally won.

 

[SaparotRob]

Damn the blue paint, Go Grumman!

 

[MIflyer]

Damn the blue paint, Go Grumman!

The USN had to tell Grumman to slow down, they were building them faster than they could accept them.

 

[MIflyer]

Nice shot of a 51D in the WW2 timeframe. You do not see many shots with a 51D flying with the canopy open. Musta been going fairly slow an hot day.

 

[syscom3]

A "Knock Down Kit" B-24H. from Willow Run. There were sent to other assembly plants
to build a final product.

 

[GTX]

A "Knock Down Kit" B-24H. from Willow Run. There were sent to other assembly plants
to build a final product.

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Someone should model that

 

[special ed]

Someone should send me one.
The neighbors would be ....

 

[Airframes]

Comes in a huge wooden box labelled "B-24H kit, 1/1 scale".

 

[Greg Boeser]

Just hope it's not the resin kit.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

A "Knock Down Kit" B-24H. from Willow Run. There were sent to other assembly plants
to build a final product.

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So that was the box the B-17 came in?

 

[Warspite63]

Someone should model that

All my models kinda ended up like that anyway.......