<p>c/n 4045.
Built 1942.
US Navy Bureau No 05997.
Partly restored and visible in the restoration hangar at the Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California, USA.
28-2-2016.
</p><p>The following information comes from the excellent Yanks Air Museum website:-
</p><p>“Delivered: November 24, 1942
USS Enterprise, NAS San Diego, CA, Puuene, Barbers
Point, HI and Ford Island, HI, Noema, USS Saratoga,
VF-12 Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Strikes on Kolombagra Island, Naura and Rabaul
Stricken: July 31, 1945.
Used as an MGM movie prop before it was acquired by Yanks on August 18, 1980.  
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During restoration, Japanese 27mm bullets were found in the tail.”
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/65001151@N03">Alan Wilson</a> from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK
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