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F2H-3 (F-2C) b/n 126358
*1953: VF-193 as "B-308".
*1956: VF-193 as “B-308”.

Almost looks like North Island from what I can see in the background

Looking through the SDASM archives, I found this odd photo:
And besides the PB4Y, is that a Martin Mariner on the left?
Over to you...

Oriskany arrived at Yokosuka on 2 April 1955, and operated with the Fast Carrier Task Force ranging from Japan and Okinawa to the Philippines. This deployment ended on 7 September, and the carrier arrived at NAS Alameda, California, on 21 September.

She cruised the California Coast while qualifying pilots of Air Group 9, then put to sea from Alameda on 11 February 1956 for another rigorous Western Pacific (WestPac) deployment.

1957–1968[edit]





Oriskany showing angled flight deck and hurricane bow.
Oriskany returned to San Francisco on 13 August 1956, and entered the shipyard to undergo the SCB-125A modernization program on 1 October. She was decommissioned there on 2 January 1957. Oriskany received a new angled flight deck, aft deck edge elevator, enlarged forward elevator, and enclosed hurricane bow. Powerful new steam catapults replaced the older hydraulic catapults. The wooden flight deck planking was also replaced with aluminum planking.

Oriskany was recommissioned at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard on 7 March 1959, Captain James Mahan Wright was in command. Four days later she departed for shakedown out of San Diego with Carrier Air Group 14 embarked. Operations along the West Coast continued until 14 May 1960, when she again deployed to WestPac, returning to San Diego on 15 December. She entered San Francisco Naval Shipyard on 30 March 1961, for a five-month overhaul that included the first aircraft carrier installation of the Naval Tactical Data System

Sure that's a Tradewind and not just an Albatross?

Good catch, could indeed be a Albatross, and seems to match this scheme:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 13-12.jpg-

but the Tradewind is pretty similiar in this part of the hull.

As per my above I still think North Island or Alameda. For those folks like airnutz commenting about the North Side of North Island, yes your are indeed correct- the terrain across the bay from the seaplane ramps and large hangars would be more flat (Lindburgh Field), so no hills and trees. But if your refer to the West side of North Island, which has been an aircraft boneyeard for decades, and if a picture was taken at this boneyard looking west there would indeed be trees and a hill in the background, just over the channel. Much depot work, and scrapping was done there, and it would not be out of the places to have various obsolete aircraft parked there. Lots of historical pictures of aircraft dumped on the west side right next to the channel. Google map the west side of North Island and you will see all sorts of airframes still dumped there.

Nathan makes a good case for Alameda, but the trees and hill are much further away from Alameda. Alameda NAS is very flat, and the only hills quite a distance. Still indeed a possibilty.

I lean towards the west side of North Island, with the hills and trees of Ballast Point/Point Loma in the background. Taken about here, or at the boneyard area a few hundered yards north, looking due west would put trees/hills of point loma behind:

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.6991755 ... a=!3m1!1e3