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Jack Cook
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No professionals involved here just ordinary joes in uniform.
I'll dig up a few more SBD shots.

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FINALLY a fun fact I can spring on y'all more knowledgable types.

The SB2C sank more tonnage during the war than the SBD.

That being said, the SBD did its sinking when the USA needed it most and was by all reports much nicer to fly than the SB2C.

Glad to be a member of both the Air Force that has one each still flying AND a member of LSFM, with its SBD.

Great pics Jack.

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For those curious, the dipole arrays shown under the wings in Jack’s photos could be manually turned up to 90 degrees to the line of flight using the attached cockpit control. Electronic switching between port & starboard arrays occurred at 1800 cycles/second.

The ASB series was a very successful early non-microwave (60cm) surface search radar, purpose built for carrier-based planes. The entire assemblage weighed a little over 120 lbs. -Adrian
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The SB2C sank more tonnage during the war than the SBD

Jacobson sank a tanker with his SBD and rec'v the DFC. Later in a SB2C hit put a 1000# GPB on the Yamato and rec'v the Navy Cross.

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How about numbers on the B-25? Split between AF and Marine units, they sank quite a bit.
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Spectacular. The folks over at CV6.org would love these.
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One of the guys that runs that site, Jack Glass, was a VB-10 gunner on the Big E.
I don't think he did the Intrepid cruise though.

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Wasn't the #22 plane from VB-10 the plane that the 1/48 Monogram model of the SBD was based on?
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For those curious, the dipole arrays shown under the wings in Jack’s photos could be manually turned up to 90 degrees to the line of flight using the attached cockpit control. Electronic switching between port & starboard arrays occurred at 1800 cycles/second.
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One of those very same arrays is present on Bu No 36291, the SBD-5 recovered from Lake Michigan back in April. I snapped a close up shot of it when I was at Pensacola last Thursday (2 July 2009).

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That's a cool pic! Not only is the dipole antenna still there, but you can clearly see how the red border on the insignia was later overpainted with blue.

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