Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Enzo Matrix" wrote in message
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Emperor_(D98)

http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/034.htm

One of the photographs here clearly shows a Hellcat with invasion
stripes, although the carrier was engaged on Operation DRAGOON at
the time.

The presence of invasion stripes does not indicate an aircraft
participated in the D-Day landings, it just indicates it operated
over western Europe on June 6 1944 or later.

Agreed. However we have two documents that mention Ermperor's service during
the D-Day landings. One document states that Emperor "served on
anti-submarine detail during Operation Overlord". The other states she
"served as an ASW patrol ship at Normandy".

The same two documents also claim that Emperor took part in Operations
TUNGSTEN and DRAGOON. TUNGSTEN preceded OVERLORD, DRAGOON was after it. Both
TUNGSTEN and DRAGOON involved the use of Hellcats from Emperor. It doesn't
seem likely that the Hellcats were removed from Emperor before D-Day and
replaced with some other naval fighter, only to be returned to the ship
immediately afterwards.

My statement, which you questioned, was "Emperor provided aircraft for the
anti-submarine screen during the D-Day landings, again with Hellcats as
fighter cover", which seems pretty much supported by those two documents.


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Enzo

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