Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver making a landing approach to the USS Ticonderoga as seen from the carrier’s fantail below the level of the flight deck during training operations in the Central Pacific, Oct 1944. [Colorized by WW2DB]

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Caption     Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver making a landing approach to the USS Ticonderoga as seen from the carrier’s fantail below the level of the flight deck during training operations in the Central Pacific, Oct 1944. [Colorized by WW2DB] ww2dbase
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Navy
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Identification Code   80-G-419954
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SB2C Helldiver   Main article  Photos  
Ticonderoga   Main article  Photos  Maps  
Photo Size 1,180 x 927 pixels
Photos at Same Place Pacific Ocean
Added By David Stubblebine
Colorized Date 24 Feb 2023
Licensing  Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government".

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1. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
29 Dec 2018 07:19:30 PM

Note the plane guard trailing the carrier, either the destroyer USS Lardner or USS Lansdowne.
2. Rich MILLER says:
2 Feb 2024 08:20:30 AM

Lardner and Lansdowne were the screen for TU 12.5.1 (Tico and those 2 DDs) when they went to Ulithi leaving Pearl Harbor Oct 18 1944, arriving Oct 29 with a stop at Eniwetok. From Oct 1 to Oct 5, Tico operated with Ingraham (DD-694) and Morale (DD-693) as screen in a Hawaiian operating area flying day and night refresher for CAG 80. Is there a better date for the picture to determine which DDs were involved?
3. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
22 Feb 2024 10:23:14 PM

After a deeper dive into the available data, USS Ticonderoga’s deck log indicates this image's photographer, Lieutenant H. Bristol (a photographer with Edward Steichen’s Naval photographic unit), reported aboard on 17 Oct 1944 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii the day before sailing to Ulithi. That dates this photo in the later half of Oct 1944.

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