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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 11:15, 4 September 2007: 739 × 503 (90 KB): Schlendrian {{Information |Description=Photo #: 80-G-K-1948 (Color) USS Quincy (CA-71) Two Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplanes warming up on the cruiser's fantail prior to catapult launching, probably at the time of the Invasion of Southern France, August 1944.
English: A U.S. Navy Vought OS2U Kingfisher in flight, circa in 1944. Note the squadron code "2SU1" on the plane. This seems to indicate that the aircraft was assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 1 (CASU-1) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
OS2U with landing gear. The Vought OS2U Kingfisher is an American catapult-launched observation floatplane. It was a compact mid-wing monoplane, with a large central float and small stabilizing floats. Performance was modest because of its low-powered engine. The OS2U could also operate on fixed, wheeled, taildragger landing gear.
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No. 107 Squadron was a Royal Australian Air Force maritime patrol squadron of World War II.It was formed in May 1943 and was equipped with Vought OS2U Kingfisher aircraft. . The squadron conducted anti-submarine patrols off the Australian east coast during the last years of the war, but did not encounter any enemy submari
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In February 1943, it operated eight OS2U-3 at Banana River and two OS2N-1 at Naval Air Station Key West. [ 3 ] As part of Gulf Sea Frontier Operation Plan 3-42 dated 15 March 1942, the squadron became task unit 26.2.9 and flew missions "to patrol shipping lanes" with a "be prepared to provide escort, search, tracking and striking groups."
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