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[Brady]

???

[ZonkerHarris]

SB2C?

[Tankerace]

SB2C Helldiver overflying an Essex class carrier, looks late a later Long hull variety.

[Tankerace]

Nope, its not a long hull, its the USS Hornet CV-12.

[Feinder]

The would therefore be VB-2, and the two guys are listed one of these guys... The trick would be to find out who normally flew #114 (altho they didn't always fly an "assigned" aircraft)...

Combat Pilots-Bombing Squadron TWO
1 March to 1 October 1944
LCDRs LIEUTs.
Campbell, G. B. (C.O. ) Bamber, J. W.
Smith, J. R. (X.0.) Buell, H. L. (F.O.)
Felderman, L. E.
Galvin, D. (POW)
Micheel, V. L. (OPS)

LTJGs ENSIGNs
Armstrong, K. H. Maxson, F. A. Wells, J. (KIA) Alldredge, W.W Harrsen, F. P
Bosworth, A. (KIA) McGee, J. Wynn, D. E. Anderson, R. Hiigel, C. E.
Bush, B Moore, W. R. Yaussi, R. A Armbruster, G. (KIA) Kahler, D. J.
Dane, S. Powers, J. K. Berg, G. E. Looney, F. E.
Doherty, A. F. Richey, M. H. Callahan, C. W Norris, A. J.
Ewing, H. A. Ricks, R. Connell, R. (POW) Reynolds, A. F.
Finnell, B. Robertson, G. H. Daughtry, W. B. Sills, D. (KIA)
Finger, W. (KIA) Russom, Z P. Gaiser, H. E Smith, D.
Fritts, J. (KIA) Schaber, J. F. Gurtler, P. T. Unswood, F. C.
Garbe, G. J. Scheurer, R. E.
Garbler, P. Sherwood, K. (KIA) STAFF
Hardin, G. W. (KIA) Sonnenberg, E. D. Lt. P. B. Brown Lt. William Quay
Houston, J. (KIA) Stear, D. S. Lt. B. Pattee Lt. Edwin Wenzel
Isabella, H. V. Soyster, H. R.
LaMoyne, F. G. Taylor, T.J
Lawrence, K. (KIA) Tull, H. E.
Combat Gunners-Bombing Squadron TWO
1 March to 1 October 1944

Albertelli, A. E. Cooper, Hank Henderson, Cliff (KIA) Mills, Ben (KIA)
Bailey, Walter Cressy, William Hills, Eddie (KIA) O’Neil, B. W.
Bales, S. H. Crout, J. V. (KIA) Howard, Jimmy Pattillo, Morgan A.
Begley, Clyde Cubetz, Art (KIA) Husted, Jack Ponzar, Al (KIA)
Berliner, Jack Curry, James Ingersoll, A. T. Redman, W. E. (KIA)
Billings, Harold (KIA) Davis, A. B. Jackson, C. E. Safford, Ray W.
Bolac, Frank Donelan, Don Kemp, Art Scholar, Harry
Bottrell, G. V. Durako, Joe Kennedy, L. J. Secrest, Jack
Brigantino, A. C. Fanok, Mike Killary, Dave Simmons, Harold
Bryan, E. F. Flatt, Paul (KIA) Kline, William Simpson, Tommy
Calpass, R. G. Follenweider, Paul Lakey, W. D. Stanley, Burl
Carioti, G. Foster, Leonard (KIA) Lee, Robert Stoyka, John
Case, C. H. Freeman, Everett (KIA) Long, Oscar (KIA) Tolar, J. A.
Charles, Tommy (KIA) Germuska, Larry Maxwell, A. C. Ulin, Arne (KIA)
Chartier, H. R. Harrison, C. F. McDonald, Russ (KIA) Vilks, Ramon
Chigas, Joe Hart, John McElroy, E. T. Wilson, H. F.
Clark, George Hastings, W. J. McGowan, William Wilson, N. W.
Clements, F. E. Hayatake, William Meyer, R. C. Youmans, K. D.

[Central Blue]

what is the peculiar white shape in the water on the port side, amid ship?

[Ron Saueracker]

ORIGINAL: Tankerace

Nope, its not a long hull, its the USS Hornet CV-12.

Depends on if the original CV-8 is sunk does it not?[8|]

[Belce]

On the port side, we see wake from the carrier and the sort of L shaoed thing with a fin is an airspeed sensor on the wing of the fore ground plane.

[khelvan]

The plane is an SB2C Helldiver. No idea on the ship, though, I am no good with those.

Edit: Wow, I didn't notice all the other replies, I thought no one had yet. And to think I haven't had anything to drink. Oops.

[CatLord]

ORIGINAL: Central Blue

what is the peculiar white shape in the water on the port side, amid ship?

Ha ! That I can recognise. It's at my level of knowledge:

It's called a "wave".

[:D]

Cat

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Central Blue

what is the peculiar white shape in the water on the port side, amid ship?

It is a sensor on the left wing of the plane in the foreground...but it looks like an all-white Exocet protoype about to impact the carrier [;)]

[Central Blue]

my thanks to Cap and Belce, [&o]

my old eyes were thinking buzz bomb. I thought it might be coming off the foreground wing, but the business end with the dorsal fin is so white I thought someone might be playing with a photo editor.

[Brady]

Helldiver, it is[:)]

Essex Class, it is[:)]

USS Hornet, it is[:)]

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Picture Dated to January 45.