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Old 15 January 2006, 08:39 PM #22 (permalink)
Barrett
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Regis Toomey: now there's an old-timey movie name!

The Tophatters emblem was generic in "Dive Bomber" though most of the in-flight stuff was done by VB-3's SB2Us. But there were also Buffalos and assorted types with the same emblem "irregardless" of the side numbers. A lot of the shipboard scenes were shot aboard Enterprise, despite the fact that VB-3 (actually the Black Panthers bearing the "High Hatter" emblem) was a Saratoga squadron.

Then there was Alexis Smith...

And all those N3Ns at NRAB Long Beach. Sigh...makes me plumb homesick. (For the N3N, not Long Beach.)
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