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| Keywords: F6Fs on USS Yorktown Aug 1943.jpg U S Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters of fighter squadron VF-5 Carrier Air Group Five CVG-5 are readied for a strike against Marcus Island aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-10 on 31 August 1943 The 00 identifies this aircraft as the Hellcat of the Air Group Commander CAG of CVG-5 LtCdr Jimmy Flatley The F6F is painted in the new tricolor-scheme certainly an in the field application An Aviation Boatswain Mate stands ready to remove the chock from the wheels A non-specular insignia white diagonal stripe on the tail and the green propeller hub identified CVG-5 aboard the Yorktown Official U S Navy photo 80-G-K-16166 Scan from Robert L Lawson ed The History of US Naval Air Power The Military Press New York USA 1985 ISBN 0-517-414813 p 85 Also available fom navsource org with more island and less Hellcats http //www navsource org/archives/02/021049 jpg 1943-08-31 Lt Charles W Kerlee USN File F6F Yorktown green jpg PD-USGov-Military-Navy F6F-3 Hellcat Aboard USS Yorktown CV-10 World War II color photographs of the Pacific War Charles Kerlee United States Navy air group commander aircraft James Henry Flatley | ||||
