Pacific Fleet Morning by cedarwolf

Poser • Historical • posted on Sep 10, 2003

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One foggy morning in the Pacific the Essex and her attendant fighter group were involved in morning flight exercises and... Skydome by RDNA, LandZone by Cybia, Carrier USS Essex and fighters by BeyondVR, post work in Paintshop Pro 7. The price of freedom is high, who among you is willing to pay the price for the right of Franchise in the new world?

Comments (5)

spook

10:19PM | Wed, 10 September 2003

interesting image. nicely done. a bit sad when seeing images of the devastator... brave crews.

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maciek

6:59PM | Thu, 11 September 2003

I'd rather shoot myself than fly this flying coffin :) Nicely done.

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tallpindo

9:54PM | Thu, 11 September 2003

My mind associates this big greenhouse airplane with the TBD and TBM. Even the SBD and the equivalent Vought had significant greenhouses. Now an F-4F would be about the right era of fighter. There must have been other contractor designations. I'm going to go look up some pictures of the Essex and her air complement. Wasn't it the Enterprise that was at Pearl and the escort carriers had stacks sticking out the ssides and no islands in the Atlantic. The Essex class was used for training at Pensacola and had F-8's and later A-4's as fighter cvomplement. This was after the CVA separation from CVS. Essexes all became CVS dsignating them as anti-submarine with mostly S-2's and S-3's. A timely moment and a nice fog of war I have looked through. for CV-9 Essex http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv09-essex/cv09-essex.html for TBD-1 "Devastator" http://www.histoiredumonde.net/20_eme_siecle/avions/us/devastator.html

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lowtech

11:52PM | Thu, 11 September 2003

Hey, where can I find those models? I've been looking for a WWII carrier. Love the image BTW.

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cedarwolf

6:30AM | Fri, 12 September 2003

lowtech: BeyondVR can be found at: http://hometown.aol.com/beyondvr/ tallpindo: Thanks for the tips and URLs. I was stationed on a Knox class Destroyer Escort, sort of the Navy's version of a mobile land mine detector (if one blows up, everyone runs the other way) and I was stationed at Mayport NS across the basin from the Saratoga and the last hospital ship. If anyone finds a model of a Knox class DE, let me know, please.