clyde61 wrote

Anybody know what the Navy used this plane for?

SURE! Airborne Early Warning. The Navy maintained AEW (VW) squadrons in
Argentia Newfoundland back during the "Cold War". They flew a "Barrier"
pattern to detect those nasty Russian Bear aircraft. That is the RADAR on
top of the fuselage.

The aircraft is actually either the Lockheed WV-2 (early) or EC-121
"Warning Star" (later). We affectionately called them "Willy Victors",
and hoped that we would never be assigned to fly them. Flying "multi-
motors" back in the '50s and '60s was literally the end of a Naval
Aviators career.

Bob Moore
VP-21 VP-46
PanAm (retired)