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[Viking1066]

The Navy's three aircraft carriers docked at the Navy Yard circa 1930. Ships are, from front USS LANGLEY (CV-1), USS SARATOGA (CV-3), and LEXINGTON (CV-2) HISN

 

[Viking1066]

USS Saratoga and USS Lexington Diamondhead, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, in February 1932 HISN

 

[Viking1066]

Vought O3U-2 Corsair On board USS SARATOGA (CV-3) after suffering a landing gear collapse, during the early 1930s. Plane is a unit of Anti-Submarine Squadron 2 (VS-2) HISN

 

[MIflyer]

Obviously, these are Vought Vindicators but I assume that they are USMC.

VT-8 was equipped with Vindicators before being reequipped with TBD.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Greg Boeser]

Obviously, these are Vought Vindicators but I assume that they are USMC.

VT-8 was equipped with Vindicators before being reequipped with TBD.

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Aboard Ranger (CV-4) Scouting 42.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Aleutian hillside covered in tents overlooking a flooded maintenance area INHG

 

[Viking1066]

American airmen posing with the "teardrop turret" of a B-17B Flying Fortress, early 1940s WWAI

 

[Viking1066]

B-17E modified XC-108A with a cargo door REDD

 

[CATCH 22]

Obviously, these are Vought Vindicators but I assume that they are USMC.

VT-8 was equipped with Vindicators before being reequipped with TBD.

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Not the USMC but navy VS-41 and VS-42 judging by the markings. S stands for "scouting". USN usually had 1 or 2 scout squadrons and the rest were torpedo squadrons (on the same ship). AFAIR VS-41 became VB-41 and VS-42 became VB-42 in 1943.

 

[Viking1066]

B-24H Liberator 8AF 467BG790BS Q2M Witchcraft ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

B-24J Liberator 8AF 453BG734BS E8D bar pathfinder Liberator with 445BG EEN and 453BG E9M ASBIZ

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

P-51D Mustangs of the 531st Fighter Squadron lined up at South Field, Iwo Jima, Mar 25, 1945 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

P-61 Black Widow of the 548th NFS 'Coopers Snooper' REDD

 

[Viking1066]

P-61 Black Widows being delivered in the Pacific REDD

 

[Viking1066]

P-70 Havoc 7th AF 6th NFS "Dusty" at Townsville, Australia 1943 REDD

 

[GTX]

 

[Warspite63]

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Always jealous of the USN, the Army decided it needed its own carriers. Take-off was rather challenging ... landing-on was more so...... P-38 pilots were not impressed......