Dave in San Diego wrote:



There is a decent pic of the Neptune taking off from Midway he

http://history.navy.mil/avh-1910/PART06.PDF

go to pdf page 18, or document page 176

It, like the Coral Sea pic on the site Ralph cited above, doesn't show
much in the way of markings, though.

Dave in San Diego

That seems to be because there hardly are any. They seem to be limited

to the standard dark blue overall with straightforward national markings,

navy titles, BuNo in white and on some aircraft a white tailcode. That's it.
Rather dreary-looking compared to later markings on ASW-oriented Neptunes


Regards,
Ralph Savelsberg