Reconnaissance seaplane Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher, flies over the USS Detroit CL-8, (Omaha-class light cruiser), from which it was catapulted, - in the area of the Aleutian Islands. 


Kingfisher

The Bat used a S-band active radar seeker developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories, and a 1,000 lb warhead with an impact fuse. The 1,700 lb weapon was released at medium to low altitudes and would home on its target once the seeker was activated. The primary delivery platform was the Convair PB4Y-2B Privateer, a single tail stretched derivative of the B-24 series. Each Privateer carried one Bat under each wing. It's internal radar painted its target and its radar-receiver picked up the echoes from its target. 

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Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldivers and Vought F4U Corairs of the 89th Bombardment Squadron are lined up on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36).
The ship was commissioned in January 1945, too late to actively serve in World War II. After serving a short time in the Far East, she was decommissioned in 1949. 