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A Navy pilot poses with his OS2U, 1942
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A Navy pilot poses with his OS2U, 1942
Vought OS2U Kingfisher being hoisted aboard USS Missouri (BB-53) in 1944, and recovery operations from USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) in mid-1943 🎥 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/50It5k332Jk
Vought OS2U Kingfisher circa 1944. attached to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 1 (CASU-1) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. USN.
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Three Vought OS2U Kingfishers landing on water near Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
Photographed by Thornton, H. Marion in the 1940s.
Alaska State Library: ASL-P338-0423
"This image depicts artwork of an OS2U floatplane performing an aerial attack on a submarine. A U.S. Coast Guard amphibian plane sweeps down from the sky and scores a direct bomb hit on a surfaced nazi U-boat."
Artwork by Hunter Wood.
Date: June 18, 1943
NARA: 205575756
Vought OS2U Kingfisher. A catapult-launched observation floatplane. First flew in 1938. At US Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi. 1942
Mise à l'eau d'un Vought OS2U Kingfisher depuis le HMS Pegasus, anciennement appelé HMS Ark Royal, utilisé comme navire d'entraînement des pilotes de la Royal Navy – Lamlash – Ecosse – Septembre 1942
Photographe : Lieutenant R.G.G. Coote
©Imperial War Museums - A 12043
©Colorisation par RJM
Vought OS2U Kingfisher surfing.
After painting the last piece I started to wonder how the pontoon would actually work.