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[cammerjeff]

ENTERPRISE readies VT-6 TBDs' for raid against the Japanese airfield at Taroa on I February 1942 USNF
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Great action picture showing the ground crew cranking the starter's handle and the fold down maintenance platform that you would get the privilege of stowing after the engine is started and with the prop spinning just a few feet from your head and hands. Just proves that a Flight Deck was never a safe place to work!

 

[Bretoal2]

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German soldiers and officers inspecting HMS Campbeltown moments before she explodes, killing 250 and wreck the
drydock she rammed useless for the rest of the war.

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1942, 28 march. The successful "St Nazaire Raid".

 

[andy1967]

1942, 28 march. The successful "St Nazaire Raid".

Jeremy Clarkson made a programme about this raid, it's available on YouTube and worth watching.

 

[syscom3]

Lockheed Hudson Mark IIs and IIIs of No. 233 Squadron RAF based at Aldergrove, County Antrim,
flying in starboard echelon formation over Northern Ireland., 30 May 1941.

 

[syscom3]

Pilot Officer James 'Ginger' Lacey DFM and Bar, hard at work on a model airplane in No 501
Squadron's dispersal hut at Colerne, 30 May 1941.

 

[Viking1066]

Vought SU-2 Corsair (BUNO A-9099) of circa 1933-34. Note Anti-Submarine Squadron 1 (VS-1) emblem painted under the cockpit HIST

 

[Viking1066]

The barred insignia with blue outline was in use from August 1943 through the end of the war INHG

 

[Viking1066]

(VS-44) maintenance crew working on a variant OS2U Kingfisher Hato Field, Curaçao, Dutch West Indies, circa 1943 WW2B

 

[Viking1066]

A beautiful photograph of a formation of OS2U Kingfishers assigned to the USS Mississippi (BB-41) INHG

 

[Greg Boeser]

Vought SU-2 Corsair (BUNO A-9099) of circa 1933-34. Note Anti-Submarine Squadron 1 (VS-1) emblem painted under the cockpit HIST
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Don't rely on the original caption. S is for scouting.

 

[Frog]

Vought SU-2 Corsair (BUNO A-9099) of circa 1933-34. Note Anti-Submarine Squadron 1 (VS-1) emblem painted under the cockpit HIST
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VS-1 : S for Anti-Submarine or for Scouting ?

 

[Viking1066]

VS-1 : S for Anti-Submarine or for Scouting ?

Greg says Scouting. He is more knowable about this, so I defer him. I am still learning about this. American aircraft and MiGs are not my strong suit.

 

[Greg Boeser]

VS-1 : S for Anti-Submarine or for Scouting ?

The US Navy used "S" to designate scouting aircraft and squadrons from 1922 to 1946.
In 1946 the designation was changed to indicate anti-submarine aircraft and squadrons.

 

[Wurger]

the pic source: the net.

 

[Viking1066]

Airspeed AS-10 Oxford IIs RNZAF September 1940 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

An SB2U-2 Vindicator, 42-S-8, of Scouting Forty-two (VS-42) is craned off USS RANGER August 1942 NAVY

 

[Viking1066]

Another Kingfisher aboard Missouri's catapult, this example has the individual aircraft number 6 painted on the tip of the float INHG

 

[special ed]

Another Kingfisher aboard Missouri's catapult, this example has the individual aircraft number 6 painted on the tip of the float INHG
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Dyarama material?

 

[syscom3]

Far right, American pilot Jacqueline Cochran (1906–1980) talks to members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force at work on a
Hawker Hurricane MkIIb fighter aircraft of 242 (Canadian) Squadron Royal Air Force Fighter Command on 1st June 1941
at RAF Duxford in Cambridgeshire , United Kingdom. Jacqueline Cochran pioneered women's aviation as one of the most
prominent racing pilots of her generation setting numerous records and was the first woman to break the sound barrier
on 18 May 1953. Cochran was the wartime head of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and before the United States
entered the Second World War worked with British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) ferrying American built aircraft to Britain
and becoming the first woman to fly a Lockheed Hudson V bomber across the Atlantic.

 

[Viking1066]

An excellent view of Missouri's crane as a Kingfisher is recovered INHG