11/15/2020. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Both SB2C-4Es "47" and "51" carried the code "XVF" on the fuselage side, indicating they were assigned to Experimental Development Squadron Two Hundred (XVF-200). That squadron, as well as Experimental Utility Squadron Twenty Five (XVJ-25), were formed by the USN at NAS Brunswick, Maine on June 1945. Their mission was "to provide flight facilities for evaluating and testing tactics, procedure, and equipment for use in special defense tasks particularly those concerned with defense against the Kamikaze. By January 25, 1946, XVF-200 had been relocated to Naval Auxiliary Landing Field (NALF) Fentress, Virginia and was subsequently disbanded on March 15, 1946.

NALF Fentress was commissioned as one of several satellite airfields for NAS Norfolk in 1943, subsequently became a night flying field and a designated facility for Field Carrier Landing Practice, for which it is still in use as of this day. Check the story about this facility at Paul Freeman's very informative Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields website."