File:Blue Angels team 46 2NAN8-55.jpg

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The U.S. Navy flight demonstration team Blue Angels 1946 team in front of one of their Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat.

Original caption: "By August '46 the Blue Angels were already winning honors. First five-man team was Cassidy, Taddeo, Voris, Wickendoll, and Robinson." (Lt. Robinson was killed in September 1946 while performing a "Cuban Eight" maneuver during an airshow when a wingtip broke off his Bearcat sending him into an unrecoverable spin.)
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Source U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News August 1955 [1]
Author USN

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