Keywords: Blue Angels team 46 2NAN8-55.jpg The U S Navy flight demonstration team Blue Angels 1946 team in front of one of their Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat Original caption By August '46 the Blue Angels were already winning honors First five-man team was Cassidy Taddeo Voris Wickendoll and Robinson Lt Robinson was killed in September 1946 while performing a Cuban Eight maneuver during an airshow when a wingtip broke off his Bearcat sending him into an unrecoverable spin U S Navy Naval Aviation News August 1955 http //www history navy mil/nan/backissues/1950s/1955/Aug55 pdf 1946 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy Blue Angels pilots and team |