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HISTORY 0F COMPOSITE SQUADRON 65 (VC-65)


TBM Landing on CVE

 

After the basic transition period, VC-65 moved to Crows Landing NAS, an auxiliary station in the San Joaquin Valley. The training at Crows Landing was night flying, a transitional phase without use of armament. When night flight training was completed, (at the end of September 1943), the squadron moved back to Alameda Naval Air Station.

Prior to leaving Alameda NAS, the last training mission for the torpedo bomber crews was making a torpedo drop at a training area at Monterey Bay.

In November, 1943, VC-65 boarded the U.S.S. Midway (CVE 63) at Oakland Army Terminal for transportation to North Island NAS at San Deigo, California to continue training. It was time to learn and apply the proper use of the squadron's aircraft.


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