"Ken Murphy" <murykken@cogecoDOT.ca> wrote in message ...
> Joseph Testagrose <Joet5@optonline.net> wrote:
> Yorktown is steaming in reverse, landing on at the bow!
> Ken
Interesting!
More relevant pictures and text at
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/10.htm
"NS021037
USS Yorktown going at 20kts full astern, ready to take aircraft landing
over the bow. The midships and after flight deck is full of parked aircraft,
the deck-edge radio masts are folded down to the side for flight operations.
Note four 40mm quads grouped around the island (USN photo, possibly
taken not long before image NS021019, below)."
Similar, or identical to Joe's is
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021019.jpg
"NS021019
The Yorktown steams full astern to land a TBF Avenger over the bow,
July 1943. Though provision for over-the-bow landing was a design
requirement, it was rarely practiced and the bow arresting gear was
soon eliminated."
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