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You can go to the web page and click on this to get a full screen

Nice shot. Damn those Navy photographers are good!

Is there a date on that photo?

It's a kinda narrow swathe of time, because the Big E only entered service in May '38 and those TBD were wearing a different paint scheme not too long thereafter.

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Originally posted by Allan DeGroot:
Is there a date on that photo?

It's a kinda narrow swathe of time, because the Big E only entered service in May '38 and those TBD were wearing a different paint scheme not too long thereafter.

It is a Life magazine photo. I will try to find the full sized version. It will not link here but it does have some information associated with it.

Crew of the American aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 servicing SBC-3 torpedo bombers on deck during maneuvers off Hawaii.
Location: HI, US
Date taken: September 1940
Photographer: Carl Mydans
Size: 862 x 1280 pixels (12.0 x 17.8 inches)


find with a google image search

USS Enterprise CV-6

It is on page 4 of the image search.
The photo shows the details
Click on the photo to get the awesome full screen image.

I thought that the photo was pre war from the (aluminum) or lack of any paint skeam on the planes.