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Photo #: NH 95571

USS Yorktown (CV-5)

Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) SBD-3 aircraft spotted forward on the flight deck, during operations in the Coral Sea, April 1942.
VB-5 painted individual plane numbers on the engine cowling, as seen here. Scouting Squadron Five (VS-5) planes had the numbers on the wing leading edge.

Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, 1984.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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1 April 1999