![]() ![]() Chose a Gloss Sea Blue aircraft you want to make. In summary, I think you might be able to find a SB2C-4E that fits your criteria, but based on my experience it is going to be very hard to photographic evidence. 7, '44 stated that ALL carrier-based aircraft carry the new SEa Blue Scheme. A directive issued March 22, '44 designated that all carrier-based fighter aircraft be painted overall sea blue. SB2C-4 were introduced summer of '44 (but were most numerous of SB2Cs). I really like WWII naval aviation, and have study it quite extensively (for an amateur), and I have not seen any tri-color SB2Cs with an APS-4 radar. Would a 1st generation aerial radar system be able to filter out "noise" from the ground to determine a target? I personally think not, and if I was an admiral I would place my radars on fighter and TBFs (for AWACS duty) b/f dive bombers. What good would an early radar set do on a dive bomber? Dive bomber are going to attack targets on the ground. It is not going to be used for night operations. My thinking is why would you need a radar on a dive bomber: 1. I would also guess that the APS-4 radar was deployed on TBFs before SB2Cs. I think (it is more of a gut feeling) that the APS-4 radar was initially deployed with fighter squadrons, or more specifically night fighter squadron. As far as I can tell the APS-4 radar was deployed sometime during 1943. I also tried researching the deployment of the APS-4 radar. I did find the BuNo of the SB2C-4E and SBW-4E, which might help with IDing photos:Īircraft with these BuNo should fit your criteria. It might help to do internet searches for SBW-4E as well, although all the images I found were either mislabeled versions or in the overall sea blue paint. The SBW-4E was a SB2C-4E manufactured buy the Canadian Car Foundry, (think TBF and TBM, same plane different manufacturers). One point that might be of interest is that many SB2C-4Es were manufactured as SBW-4E. I looked through my paper references (which are not that extensive) and spent about 1.5 hours searching online (hey, I just recently laid off from my job and time is one thing I have plenty of )) and I came up with nothing in the tri-color scheme and found several examples in overall sea blue. Let me make sure I understand your criteria: ![]() Hi Chukw, I thought I might take up your research challenge. ![]()
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