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Old 17th February 2018, 11:30
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Re: Request for help

Hi Dimitri,
As far as I can tell, VC-68 operated off the escort carrier USS Fanshaw Bay during the Leyte Gulf Operation as part of Taffy 3.

If you go to this USN historical document archive site -
http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/145/
you can download a short history of the USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70) titled "Straddled". It has photos towards the back half of the publication that show a number of Wildcats, though I am not familiar enough to tell if they are six-gun F4F-4s or four-gun F4F-3s or four-gun FM2s (except from directly in front, and then can't always see the taller tail). So the ID of the Wildcats, I will leave to you.

Hope this helps,
...geoff
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Last edited by bearoutwest; 19th February 2018 at 06:06. Reason: Correcting sp of Fanshaw
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