Two U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-5 <i>Hellcat</i> of Fighting Squadron 88 (VF-88) from the aircraft carrier USS <i>Yorktown</i> (CV-10) attack a Japanese ship off Niigata, Honshu (Japan), on 10 August 1945. The ship type is described as a "Sugar Charlie". This was a code used by the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence for small freighters displacing between 1.000 and 2.000 tons.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/ONI/ONI-208-J/ONI-208-JSup3.pdf">[1]</a>
U.S. Navy
1945-08-10
U.S. Navy photo <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv10-45/162.htm">[2]</a> from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv10-45/index_004.htm">USS <i>Yorktown</i> (CV-10) 1943-1945 cruise book</a> available at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://navysite.de/cruisebooks/index.html">Navysite.de</a>