Dual operability times.

F4F Wildcats and TBF Avengers on the deck of HMS Victorious (R38), last time US aircrafts fly from foreign aircraft carrier for combat missions 1943.

On 12 July Victorious replenished under way from the USN tankers Cimarron and Kaskaskia, taking on 3,270 tons of furnace fuel oil, 30,283 gallons of avgas, 625 gallons of lubricating oil and 20 gallons of ice cream. On 20 July, however, she ran out of potatoes and 800lb of dried potato powder were flown from Saratoga in an Avenger dubbed the ‘Spud Express’, which also brought a Chief Commissary Steward who demonstrated to the RN chefs how he considered the powder should be reconstituted with water to make four tons of ‘perfect’ mashed potato