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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery, Troisième partie: la vengeance!

I believe the third a/c in the pic is part of the Frasca collection of planes. It was used for flight deck scenes in the first "Midway" movie, which were filmed on the deck of the USS Lexington, tied up in port at NAS Pensacola. While I was going to college in the early '70's, I worked part time for Rudy Frasca, owner of Frasca Aviation, now Frasca International. (https://www.frasca.com/) I was one of 3 college kids employed by him then, with only 13 total employees at that time. Now it's a large company with it's own airport and large manufacturing facility. I performed some maintenance on that particular FM-2. (https://www.rodbearden.com/Av09/Rudy Frasca/Grumman FM2 Wildcat N6290C 10.html)
 
My father was in VC-8 on the Guadalcanal CVE-60, then finished out the war years at St Simons Isle , Georgia as a det of about 10 FM-2s, whose daily job was to fly patterns out over the Atlantic so the new radar intercept guys out of Mayport could practice radar intercepts, ...in what I consider one of the great Naval Aviation Assignments of all time.
 
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