USS Essex at NASNI/at sea with vintage warbirds aboard

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USS Essex at NASNI/at sea with vintage warbirds aboard

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Looks like the Navy is giving a ride to a number of warbirds for VJ Day 75th anniversary celebrations in Hawaii.

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USS Essex pierside with 2 PBYs and Wildcat

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LHD-2 leaving San Diego
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Nice pics, tnx for sharing. :yourock:
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Nice!

One of these perhaps the former Dutch from Lelystad?

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Stafsels wrote:Nice!
One of these perhaps the former Dutch from Lelystad?
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N222FT is not the former Dutch, interestingly N9767 does have European links, as it used to 'live' at Paris-Orly...

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Re: USS Essex at NASNI/at sea with vintage warbirds aboard

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Mzunguwamap wrote: Made from the beach ?
The close up was from near the main gate, the at sea pic was shot from the national monument at the end of Pt Loma.

Sadly, I found out about the Cats after they got here, otherwise I'd have tried to get them in the air. ...maybe when they come back.
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