<p>The U.S. Navy flight demonstration team <i>Blue Angels</i> 1946 team in front of one of their Grumman F8F-1 <i>Bearcat</i>. 
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Original caption: "By August '46 the Blue Angels were already winning honors. First five-man team was Cassidy, Taddeo, Voris, Wickendoll, and Robinson." (Lt.  Robinson was killed in September 1946 while performing a "Cuban Eight" maneuver during an airshow when a wingtip broke off his <i>Bearcat</i> sending him into an unrecoverable spin.)
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U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News August 1955 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backissues/1950s/1955/Aug55.pdf">[1]</a>