[tanknetter]

It’s from Leyte Gulf’s Taffey 2

I don't think so. Taffey 2 consisted of Natoma Bay, Manila Bay, Marcus Island, Kadashan Bay, Savo Island, and Ommaney Bay. Nehenta Bay, which is the carrier the pics are based around, was not in Taffey 2, or the other two Taffeys, for that matter.

The two pics of the Wildcats also show them to be in overall the Gloss Sea Blue scheme, which was mainly a 1945 scheme, not the tricolor (Gloss Sea Blue, Non-Spec Blue-Gray, White) scheme worn by USN aircraft at Leyte). The pic of the Avengers does show them to wear the tri-color scheme however. My guess is that the pics bracket Nehenta Bay's early/mid 1945 stateside overhaul, with the Avenger pics being from Typhoon Cobra (assuming that all Nehenta Bay's aircraft would have been in overall Gloss Sea Blue by Typhoon Viper during Okinawa) and the Wildcat pics from Okinawa.

[19th LA Inf]

One more trivia item regarding the Nehenta Bay and the Casablanca class CVEs. They were powered by two 5-cylinder reciprocating Skinner Unaflow steam engines, probably designed for Great Lakes steamers. I don’t know of any other class of combat ships that used these, but they were probably a good choice, being more efficient than typical steam turbines of similar horsepower. They could propel the CVEs at 19 knots. Fast enough to trap and recover the FMs and TBMs used in their typical missions.