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Big Apple Kingfishers

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80 years ago today: Casco Bay, Maine, June 1943, a trio of OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes of Observation Squadron Five (VO-5) aboard the battlewagon USS New York (BB-34) while anchored at Casco Bay, Maine on 16 June 1943.

USN Photo via the National Archives

The archives also have two great images of these VO-5 Kings in a take-off in formation on Casco Bay, undoubtedly taken around the same time, although they are for some reason listed as being in May and July respectively, although DANFS does list that New York was at Portland, Maine from 2 May until 27 July 1943 in between the Torch Landings and training “11,000 enlisted men and 750 officers from the Navy, Coast Guard, and Allied navies” prior to D-Day:

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Panama, class of ’21

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“Combined Atlantic and Pacific Fleets in Panama Bay, Jan. 21st 1921,” taken by M.C. Mayberry, of Mayberry and Smith, Shreveport, Louisiana:

Click to big up 1777x529 Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, D.H. Criswell Collection. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 86082-B

Click to big up 1777×529. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, D.H. Criswell Collection. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 86082-B

Among the ships present in this image are (from left to right): USS Stoddert (DD-302), USS Melville (AD-2), USS Texas (BB-35), USS Partridge (AM-16), USS Birmingham (CL-2), USS Arkansas (BB-33), USS Idaho (BB-42), USS Mississippi (BB-41), USS Wyoming (BB-32), USS New York (BB-34), USS New Mexico (BB-40) and USS Pennsylvania (BB-38).