Photo of the week
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This weekends photo.
USS YORKTOWN CV-10 At Norfolk Naval Base loading aircraft for her shakedown cruise circa May 1943. Planes are all Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters.
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Staying with US carriers.
Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat fighters, of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3) On board USS Saratoga (CV-3) in early October 1941. Plane on the aircraft elevator is (Bureau # 3982), piloted by Ensign Gayle Hermann.
Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat fighter, of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3) Prepares to take off from USS Saratoga (CV-3), circa October 1941. The plane's pilot is probably Lt. John S. Thach, VF-3 Commanding Officer.
Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat fighters, of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3) In flight near Naval Air Station, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, 10 April 1942. The planes are Bureau # 3976 (marked F-1), flown by VF-3 Commanding Officer Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach, and Bureau # 3986, flown by Lieutenant Edward H. O'Hare. Both of these aircraft were lost while assigned to Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2) with USS Lexington (CV-2), during the Battle of Coral Sea in May 1942.
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Mid week photo's.
Two Vought factory shots taken 1942.
Of test pilot Lyman Bullard and a F4U-1 Corsair.(Birdcage)
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This weekends photo.
Messerschmitt Bf 109G of the Third Group of Fighter Squadron 54 III.-JG54 on the ground with engine access panels propped open undergoing maintenance in the field, date and location unknown
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Weekend extra.
North American O-47A on the ground with engine running circa 1942
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Wednesdays photo's.
Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz Goldfinch biplane trainer on an unidentified grass airfield. The aircraft has the civil registration D-2409.
Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz Goldfinch biplane trainer with the civil registration D-EDHI taking off from an unidentified grass airfield.
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Three this week.
When the war had ended in Europe, the U.S. Army Air Forces Intelligence Service, as part of "Operation Lusty" (LUftwaffe Secret TechnologY), took control of three He 219s at the Grove base of the 1st Night Fighter Wing (Nachtjagdgeschwader 1) in Jutland, Denmark starting on 16 June 1945. These aircraft were made flight-worthy by "Watson's Whizzers" and flown to Cherbourg, France. They were then shipped to the United States with 21 other captured German aircraft on board the British escort carrier HMS Reaper, and was reassembled at Ford Field, Newark, New Jersey.
Below at a British controlled airfield in Germany. The number ?FE612? was applied by the British with ?FE? standing for ?Foreign Equipment.
Below FE-612,He 219 A-5 prototype Werknummer 290060.pictured at Freeman Field Indiana.The fate of Werknummer 290 060 is unknown.
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