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CVE ferrying duty
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:30 pm
by m10bob
Larger planes.
RE: CVE ferrying duty
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:37 pm
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: m10bob
Larger planes.
I'd hate to see them take evasive action with that kind of deck load![X(]
RE: CVE ferrying duty
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:02 pm
by LeeChard
looks like a disassembled C-47 towards the rear, and maybe a B-26?
RE: CVE ferrying duty
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:06 pm
by Schanilec
That is a B-26 aft. neat pic.
RE: CVE ferrying duty
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:23 pm
by jcjordan
Going from l to r it looks like a B26, C47, PV1 or 2, then the rest are Cats. I can't tell if it's just some splotch on the photo in the area of the C47/PV1 or another plane also looks tobe possibly something in front of the 1st Cat. I'm surprised the Cats aren't flying unless this is a post war going home type photo
RE: CVE ferrying duty
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:41 pm
by wdolson
Odd to have a B-26 on deck. She was commissioned in January 1944 and didn't leave the Pacific until after the war (when she was decommissioned). The B-26 was gone from the Pacific theater long before she was finished. Maybe it's a picture from her shakedown cruise in which they on an aircraft transport exercise or transporting hulks around the west coast while in work up?
Bill
RE: CVE ferrying duty
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:29 pm
by ilovestrategy
Is this how the fleet carriers got replacement planes?
RE: CVE ferrying duty
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:46 pm
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: wdolson
Odd to have a B-26 on deck. She was commissioned in January 1944 and didn't leave the Pacific until after the war (when she was decommissioned). The B-26 was gone from the Pacific theater long before she was finished. Maybe it's a picture from her shakedown cruise in which they on an aircraft transport exercise or transporting hulks around the west coast while in work up?
Bill
The USMC and USN used a version of the B-26 as a target tug throughout the war.
RE: CVE ferrying duty
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:47 pm
by jcjordan
Yes, only they'd have numerous navy types on board (VR squadrons) & would fly off the needed plane or unload it at port & on it's merry way to the CV that needs it.
RE: CVE ferrying duty
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:20 am
by Tracy White
A number of the CVEs were used as ferries, and the larger fleet carriers would also cram as many planes in/on as they could when they were returning from stateside overhauls.