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Title: Name This...(584)
Post by: brady on July 29, 2003, 12:48:36 PM

???




(http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/63374/0.jpg)

Title: Name This...(584)
Post by: ra on July 29, 2003, 12:53:30 PM

Grumman something.... F3F?

Title: Name This...(584)
Post by: ramzey on July 29, 2003, 02:44:40 PM

F3F-2 from VF-2b USS Lexington?

Title: Name This...(584)
Post by: MiloMorai on July 29, 2003, 04:45:34 PM

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Originally posted by ramzey
F3F-2 from VF-2b USS Lexington?

ramzey do you have a list of  the tail colors assigned to the carrier's a/c?

I have:

pre 7-1-37

Lexington - yellow - VF2B
Ranger - green -  VF3B
Ranger - blue - VF5B
Saratoga - white - VF6B

post 7-1-37

Lexington - yellow -VF2
Yorktown - red - VF5
Ranger - green - VF4
Saratoga - white - VF3
Enterprise - blue - VF6
Wasp - black - VF7

Is this list in error?

Title: Name This...(584)
Post by: ramzey on July 29, 2003, 09:44:38 PM

honestly, i not know
i have profile in  book and drawing is signed as plane from lexington

this picture is possibly taken after war in one of airshows /chino?/

i just guess

Title: Name This...(584)
Post by: DiabloTX on July 30, 2003, 05:31:08 AM

F3F-2 based at the LSFM about 30 mins. south of my hacienda.

(http://www.lsfm.org/images/F3F.gif)

Title: Name This...(584)
Post by: BenDover on July 30, 2003, 07:50:54 AM

That coast looks just like AH.

Title: Re: Name This...(584)
Post by: Sakai on July 30, 2003, 09:56:41 AM

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Originally posted by brady
???

Gotta be the F3F, but whether or not it is a -2 or -3 I cannot say.  It does not look like the FF1.

Sakai

Title: Name This...(584)
Post by: brady on July 30, 2003, 11:42:53 AM

F3F-3, it is:)


       Their From the USS Yorktown, pic is circa 1939/40.