F6F-5N_F6F-5_CVE-87_1944-45.jpg

Summary

Description Two U.S. Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat s prepare to take off from the escort carrier USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87) , 1944/45. The plane on the catapult is an F6F-5N night fighter, and has an APS-6 radar installed in a starboard wing-mounted radome. Both aircraft had obviously been ferried by the escort carrier as squadron or carrier markings had not yet been applied. Since there is a blackened area on the tail of the F6F-5N, maybe the wartime censor eradicated the squadron markings.
Date 1944/45
Source U.S. Navy photo on www.navsource.org [1]
Author photographer: Steve Miller, ETM 2/c, USN

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