MAKE A MEME View Large Image SBDs VB-5 returning Wake 1943.jpg Two U S Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers attached to bombing squadron VB-5 returning to the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-10 after the attack on Wake Island 5 October 1943 Note the recently ...
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Keywords: SBDs VB-5 returning Wake 1943.jpg Two U S Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers attached to bombing squadron VB-5 returning to the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-10 after the attack on Wake Island 5 October 1943 Note the recently overpainted red surrounding of the U S national insignia <br>VB-5 was initially assigned Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldivers but the problems encountered with these aircraft during Yorktown´s shakedown cruise prompted her skipper Capt Joseph J Jocko Clark to order them replaced by the more reliable Dauntless The squadron took SBD-5s into combat aboard the Fighting Lady USS Yorktown in August 1943 U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/common/imagedisplay php irn 16028125 reftable ecatalogue refirn 16035963 QueryPage 2FQuery php 1943-10-05 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless 5 October 1943 in aviation
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