MAKE A MEME View Large Image Arromanches (R95) flight deck 1951.jpg Eight Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver dive bombers Escadrille 3F and six Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat fighters Escadrille 1F on the flight deck of the French aircraft carrier Arromanches R95 in the Gulf of Tonkin ...
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Keywords: Arromanches (R95) flight deck 1951.jpg Eight Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver dive bombers Escadrille 3F and six Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat fighters Escadrille 1F on the flight deck of the French aircraft carrier Arromanches R95 in the Gulf of Tonkin circa 1951 The Arromanches R95 the former HMS Colossus R15 arrived on station off Indochina in 1948 operating Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers and Supermarine Seafire fighters After a period of overhaul the carrier returned to combat in late 1951 and over the course of the next three years operated SB2C-5s and F6F-5s Hellcats in the French Indochina War Note the Sikorsky HO3S plane guard helicopter U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No 1996 253 527 http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/common/imagedisplay php irn 16027725 reftable ecatalogue refirn 16035896 ~ 1951 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Arromanches R95 Curtiss SB2C Helldiver F6F Hellcat in the French Navy
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