Posted on 08/27/2013 11:34:57 AM PDT by donmeaker
This idea was brought to my attention the other day and thought it a great choice for a thread. Most of us who are US Navy fans can certainly recall the Navy's efforts to train their pilots on the Great Lakes (Lake Michigan) in the early 40's during the war. This thread may give you a nice idea of what that exersize was all about. Many interesting images to study here and quite possibly of interest to those who are involved with the restoration of aircraft that have been recovered from the Lakes. I have also included a page from my dad's logbook showing his 1st thru 8th carrier landings on the USS Wolverine in July 1944. Sources are the NMNA archives, Library of Congress photo archives, LIFE image archives.
(Excerpt) Read more at warbirdinformationexchange.org ...
Many pictures at the link.
The Sable and Wolverine are actually mentioned and shown in one episode of Victory at Sea.
Again, thanks.
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Thank you for the link.
A needed distraction with all the crap that is going on.
Those are some awesome photos.
The day when men were men and America was America.
The Lake Carriers were pretty cool in their own way.
Those trainees sure are rough on airplanes.
I'm curious about one thing..hopefully someone will know the answer. Originally designed as ferries..I suspect the ships had a max speed of 10-15 knots...whereas the fleet carriers could max out at about 35 knots..Wouldn't that make take offs and landings much harder, and more dangerous aboard these two training ships?
I'm curious about one thing..hopefully someone will know the answer. Originally designed as ferries..I suspect the ships had a max speed of 10-15 knots...whereas the fleet carriers could max out at about 35 knots..Wouldn't that make take offs and landings much harder, and more dangerous aboard these two training ships?
I bet that showed those pesky Canadians that they’d better not mess with the Good Old USofA.
Coastal defense?
Great Lakes defense?
Thanks for posting.
I could spend all day reading this stuff.
US Naval Aviation museum in Pensacola has some actual war veteran fighters that were brought back to the the US to use in training on the Great Lakes. Theses planes were resurrected from the bottom of Lake Michigan.
I don’t know the answer to your question. But I can try to guess.
I just checked. Aircraft carriers still turn into the wind for flight operations.
Do you know the nickname of Chicago? I knew you did.
My father was on a carrier during the Vietnam war. He has also been stationed at Great Lakes NS.
I had heard of a WWII plane being recovered from Lake Michigan. I've never heard of these carriers though.
I was there last year. I could have spent many more hours than we had available to spend there. And it’s free!
Very cool!
I am still always struck at what a beautiful machine the F4U Corsair was.
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