Posted on 08/24/2025 8:02:36 AM PDT by DFG
VF-83 formed part of Carrier Air Group 83 (CVG-83) assigned to the USS Essex. CVG-83 was in action in the Pacific theatre from 10 March to 15 September 1945 participating in raids on Kyushu, supporting the invasion of Okinawa, the discovery and sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato and other air strikes against the Japanese home islands.[2]
That's 189 days ... giving us approx 35 sorties per day for the squadron ... that would be in the neighborhood of two launches per aircraft per day, as opposed to more than three launches per aircraft per day using the March-June timeframe.
Do you even know how to read? Read it again, till it makes sense. Good Luck. LOL
I think I get it. It’s not saying he flew 55 sorties a day. They are saying the carrier launched 55 planes a day.
What information do you think might be incorrect?
55 sorties per day for the fighter squadron (more than 3/day for each Hellcat) does seem very busy. Almost too busy.
55 Sorties per day for the entire air wing (Fighter, Bomber, Torpedo, and Scout) seems insufficiently busy for mid 1945.
See also my post #21.
Believe it.
I read what you wrote. I personally would bet a lot that McPherson did not steal from the mail. The way you phrased it did, however, imply that McPherson was a thief, as many other letter carriers have been.
Try reading that post more slowly.
I did read it. When you challenge someone to a bet, you are in effect taking the opposing side. The poster challenged people to bet that McPherson was not a thief, thus implying that he believed McPherson was a thief. This apparently wasn’t what the poster actually believed, and I’m glad it wasn’t, but it certainly was what was posted.
My point was McPherson represented very well the type of men that made the Post Office work. That is not as evident today.
I understand that now. Sorry for the mutual misunderstanding.
“Mutual”? Er, no. LOL
My dad was a b24 pilot. Later on he and a couple guys bought a plane and we would go out on weekends for kicks. Just a little Cessna 180.
RIP Donald
My FIL was an aircraft mechanic aboard the USS Corregidor during WWII. He was convinced that no one was controlling the Kamikazes at the end of their flight. They were already dead from the lead coming at them from the ships.
My FIL’s ‘daytime job’ was fixing airplanes, but his combat role was an Anti-aircraft artillery gunner on the side of the carrier. He was in a 4-man crew - a shooter, a loader, and two runners for fresh ammunition. They alternated roles. He has said, “With the advanced radar warning of the attack, everyone was ready when they came close.”
One time, he said, that a Kamikaze appeared to be coming right at his position. At the last second, “one of “the big guns from above the deck, knocked a wing off the airplane.” The plane rolled over, and the other wing hit the water, cartwheeling the entire airplane over the ship. He said he could feel the heat from the burning airplane as it flew over.
Fortunately, he survived, as my wife and grandkids can attest.
OK, whatever. You screwed up your phrasing and I took it literally. So LOL right back at you.
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