Douglas SBD-1 1612 Carrier Qualification Training Unit USS Wolverine IX-64 recovering aircraft that might otherwise

recovering aircraft that might otherwise have been lost to fuel exhaustion

based at McGuire Air Force Base

which flows through the heart of the Chicago & North Western's territory in central Iowa — was no ordinary business car

in Korea — loaned from the U

Maine — one of SAC's northernmost bases

Douglas SBD-1 1612 Carrier Qualification Training Unit USS Wolverine IX-64 recovering aircraft that might otherwiseThese are 1 72 scale decals for Douglas SBD 1 Dauntless 1612, assigned to the Carrier Qualification Training Unit (CQTU) aboard USS Wolverine (IX 64), wearing the Non Specular Light Gray (NS Light Gray) upper surfaces over Non Specular Blue Gray (NS Blue Gray) scheme of the early war period. The USS Wolverine was one of the most unusual vessels in the history of the United States Navy a converted side wheel passenger steamship pressed into service as