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| Description | Two U.S. Navy Grumman F6F Hellcats prepare to take off from the escort carrier USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87), 1944/45. The plane on the catapult is an F6F-5N night fighter, and has an APS-6 radar installed in a starboard wing-mounted radome. Both aircraft had obviously been ferried by the escort carrier as squadron or carrier markings had not yet been applied. Since there is a blackened area on the tail of the F6F-5N, maybe the wartime censor eradicated the squadron markings. |
| Date | 1944/45 |
| Source | U.S. Navy photo on www.navsource.org [1] |
| Author | photographer: Steve Miller, ETM 2/c, USN |
![[1]](http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/0308704.jpg){kind=link}
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