Hellcat Launches Off Jeep Carrier

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Jack Cook
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Hellcat Launches Off Jeep Carrier

Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:14 pm

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F6F-5 of Fasron-117 launches from the USS Badoeng Strait CVE-116 in 1949. The BS was built up in Portland in 1945.
Stoney
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Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:27 pm

Jack
I think they were made across the river in Vancouver.
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Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:46 pm

Swan Island in the middle-ish of the Columbia River, so everyone is correct. :)
Jack Cook
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Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:39 am

Swan Island is in Portland :idea:
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