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English: U.S. Navy Grumman TBM-3E/-3Q/-3W Avenger airplanes of attack squadron VA-12A on the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in 1947/48. The Valley Forge was on a world cruise from 9 October 1947 to 11 June 1948 with Carrier Air Group Eleven (CVAG-11) embarked. The TBM with the white belly on the right is a TBM-3W early warning plane. To the left of it (in the center of the photograph) sits a Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat.
Date 1947/48
Source Official U.S. Navy "Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons Volume 1 The History of VA, VAH, VAK, VAL, VAP and VFA Squadrons" [1]
Author U.S. Navy

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