A Curtiss SB2C-4/-5 <i>Helldiver</i> in flight. It wears the tricolour scheme and tail markings for Bombing Squadron 80 (VB-80), which operated off the aircraft carrier USS <i>Hancock</i> (CV-19), in February 1945. However, it appears that the photo was taken across the right wing of a U.S. Navy Grumman F8F-1 <i>Bearcat</i> of the "Blue Angels" flight demonstration team. The "Blue Angles" flew the F8F from 1947 to 1949. However, this plane could also be an airworthy "warbird".
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