SB2Cs on USS Yorktown (CV-10) 1943

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U.S. Navy (Note: compare with this photo [2], which was created by the US Navy, as proven by communication with the US National Museum of Naval Aviation -- sent to Commons. UNMA photos are US Government photos. This is not exactly the same photo, but it seems quite likely that it was taken by the same USN photographer.)

Later version was touched up by Cobatfor at en.wikipedia (17. dubna 2011).

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U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver bombers Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) pictured on the flight deck aboard the ciarctaft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10). VB-5 went aboard Yorktown during May-June 1943 to participate in the ship's shakedown cruise. The results were disastrous, for the squadron's SB2C Helldivers suffered numerous mechanical difficulties, not the least of which was the propensity for the aircrafts' tailhooks to pull out of their wells during recovery aboard the ship. Yorktown´s skipper, Capt. Joseph C. Jocko Clark, became so irate that he had them replaced with Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive-bombers, which VB-5 eventually took into combat.

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Public domain

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www.daveswarbirds.com photo [1]. Source given: Robert Lawson, Barrett Tillman Carrier Air War: In Original WWII Color, Motorbooks International, Oceola, Wisconsin (USA) 1996, ISBN 0-879-38983-4; transferred from en.wikipedia

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