c/n 4045.
Built 1942.
US Navy Bureau No 05997.
Partly restored and visible in the restoration hangar at the Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California, USA.
28-2-2016.
The following information comes from the excellent Yanks Air Museum website:-
“Delivered: November 24, 1942
USS Enterprise, NAS San Diego, CA, Puuene, Barbers
Point, HI and Ford Island, HI, Noema, USS Saratoga,
VF-12 Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Strikes on Kolombagra Island, Naura and Rabaul
Stricken: July 31, 1945.
Used as an MGM movie prop before it was acquired by Yanks on August 18, 1980.
During restoration, Japanese 27mm bullets were found in the tail.”