File:SB2C-1 of VB-17 after wave-off over USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) 1943.jpg
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| Description | A U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver of Bombing Squadron 17 (VB-17) takes a wave-off during flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) in the Caribbean, in 1943. The first squadron to recive the Helldiver, VB-17 experienced some growing pains with the type, losing numerous aircraft while operating from shore and aboard Bunker Hill during the carrier's shakedown cruise. While flying from Bunker Hill on 11 November 1943, the squadron introduced the aircraft to combat during a raid on Rabaul, and continued flying missions from the carrier until March 1944. After reforming, VB-17 completed a second combat cruise, this time aboard USS Hornet (CV-12) during the period February-June 1945. Among their combat missions were attacks against Tokyo and the Japanese battleship Yamato. |
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| Source | U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.291 |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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