File:F4Us and SB2Cs CVBG-75 over CVB-42 1946.jpeg

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Description U.S. Navy Vought F4U-4 Corsair fighters from Fighting Squadron VF-75 Gay Blades and Curtiss SB2C-4E Helldivers of Torpedo Squadron VT-75 Fish Hawks fly over the the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42). Both squadrons were assigned to Carrier Air Group 75 (CVBG-75) aboard the FDR for a cruise in the Western Atlantic from 19 April to 25 May 1946. Note the unusual display of the squadron designation on the tail fins.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.488.062.003
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