The planes were painted in Sea Blue. For markings
all the planes had 74-with a letter from their squadrons (F,FB,B,and T) and then the plane number. On the tail was the carrier designation
The Midway commissioned in Oct,1945 so her planes had a white triangle on the tail.Yet this conflicts with records. In 1945 the navy wanted
the Midway's airplane tails to have 2 capital letters YY and then have capital letter M . This is confusing . Yet the white triangle was in use
from commissioning until 1946 when the Midway drydocked for maintence and then the letter M
was applied.
For nationality markings the planes wore the white star with 2 white horizontal arms from the war until may 1947 the horizontal arms a thin red bar
was added. HTH
Hello,
I was wondering what the planes markings are aboard USS Midway cvb-41 in 1945-1946. I saw some pics but I never saw the same markings twice so I'm not sure of the correct markings . Is it also correct that only Corsairs and Helldivers were present on CVB-41 at that point?
Thank you for your answer
Philippe
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