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[Dana Bell]

USS Yorktown at San Diego, June 1940 the net
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A favorite photo with some hidden history. Three TBDs at the stern wear experimental camouflages. All have been overpainted with dull aluminum with Dark Green upper surfaces. One aircraft has a heavy dull aluminum blotching on the green, one a light blotching, and one no blotching at all. If I ever get back to the hobby....

Cheers,


Dana

 

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A section of three Hawker Hurricane Mark IIBs flies over another aircraft, Z3768 'FK-49', of No. 81 Squadron RAF, in a
waterlogged dispersal at Vaenga. Fall of 1941.

 

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Hawker Hurricane Mark IIBs of No. 134 Squadron RAF, scramble from their dispersals in the
snow at Vaenga. Winter, 1941.

 

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RAF Hawker Hurricane operating at Vaenga in Northern Russia. Here, the RAF pilots are teaching
Soviet pilots how to fly the aircraft. Winter, 1941.