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8th AF fighter group leaders at a conference in Bottisham, September 9, 1944.

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Climbing into the rocket powered Me-163 Komet (Death Egg)

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Historical picture a bit over 80 years ago. An exhausted Colonel James Doolittle seats by his crashed North American B-25 Mitchell in a paddy field in China after leading the Doolittle Raid over Japan and flying for over 13 hours. April 18th, 1942.

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80-G-46983: Japanese Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” aircraft being attacked by a Grumman F6F “Hellcat” during action in the Pacific. Photograph was taken by Gun Camera installed in leading edge of plane wing and attuned to plane machine-guns and cannon.

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A cutaway of a North American F-82 Twin Mustang. First flew in June of 1945, the war ended before the aircraft could become operational.

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Rear firing 0.303 machine gun on the Bristol Blenheim Mark IV manually aimed by a prone gunner looking through a sighting mirror

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An Italian pilot entering a Macchi C.202 Folgore to participate in the Battle of Mareth, 19 March 1943.

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A P-51 Mustang and the wreck of a German aircraft. Can you recognize it? [1500x1087]

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That ambulance is definitively going into that Curtiss C-46 Commando.

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The last of 18,482 B-24 Liberators rolls out of the Willow Run factory... June 28, 1945.

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Inside a Grumman TBF Avenger from the radioman/bombardier/ventral gunner station looking forward towards the pilot.

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Adolf Galland's Bf 109 serviced by his crew chief Unteroffizier Meyer. Note the unusual telescopic sight fitted to his machine.Actually that was not a telescopic sight projecting through the windscreen, but a straight forward telescope which enabled Galland to identify friend from foe at a greater

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Messerschmitt Me 262 cockpit

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Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket prototype in 1941

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Approximate mission ranges from bases in England

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American P-51 Mustangs in flight, summer 1944. Unlike the Spitfire, the P-51 could clear the path for the USAAF bombers to reach their targets. Their presence would break the Luftwaffe in 1944–45

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A-20 Havoc fresh from the Douglas factory.

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Wreckage of several Me 262 aircraft in a Bavarian factory [1500x1173]

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Pop quiz

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Luftwaffe armorers work on the ammunition feed mechanism of the 30mm MK 103 cannon that has been swung down for better access.

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A Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter equipped with radar. 1944. It was the first U.S. military aircraft designed for night interception of opposing aircraft. It served in Europe and elsewhere throughout WWII. Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt

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Bell P-39 Airacobra loading ammo [1500x1134]

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Hurricane proposed variants.

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Martin PBM Mariner patrol bomber flying boats in Okinawa, 1945.

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Bell P-59 Airacomet, the first jet fighter produced in the United States seen here disguised as a propeller plane for security & secrecy reasons. 1942.

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Focke-Wulf Ta 152, high altitude interceptor.

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View from the Bombadier seat on a B-29 is not bad.

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Celebrating the end of war with a P-61 Black Widow in the background [2000x1277]

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Yak 3 with updated insignia Duxford 2022

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Tactics Over Technology: The Thach Weave and the Battle of Midway Marked a Change in Air Combat Tactics

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P-38 Lightnings from the 20th Fighter Group in formation over France, 29 June 1944 United States Air Force

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A German soldier poses for a pic in a downed Dutch Fokker G.I twin engine heavy fighter. Comparable to the Bf-110 the Fokker G.I could have been a good plane but the small number available to the Dutch and the capitulation of the Netherlands in few days never let us find out.

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Focke-Wulf Fw 190 F-8 Werknummer 931862 nearing completion of its restoration at GossHawk Unlimited in Casa Grande, Arizona. This aircraft was shot down in Norway on February 9, 1945 during the Black Friday raid on Førde Fjord. It is to be displayed at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, MA.

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321st Bomb Group B-25 Mitchells intercept a formation of Junkers Ju 52 transports over the Sicilian Strait on April 5th 1943

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Captain Robert Maloney of the 55th Fighter Group, points to a hole in the wing of his P-51 Mustang caused by colliding with a German telegraph pole, while strafing a military train north of Ulm which was rushing equipment to the western front. Colorized by Renee Colours

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Nakajima J9N1 Kikka at the Kisarazu Air Field, Japan. 11 August 1945.

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They sure were rugged!!! A B-17G of the 351st BG hit by 88mm FlaK on September 27th 1944

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They were so young. 384th BG Aircrew with B-17G Buckeye Belle

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My German Grandfather in his Plane on the Eastern Front 1941

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Pvt Charles Chennault son of Gen Claire Chennault poses by P-40 while in training at the Army Air Forces school at Keesler Field 1942

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Flak Bait under restoration

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Sonderkommando Elbe was the name of a World War Two Luftwaffe task force assigned to bring down Allied bombers by ramming German aircraft into the bombers.

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Tom Wood landing his Mustang after a gear failure.

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Preserved Italian FIAT G-55 Centauro

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The MB.157 could have become one of the best French fighters of World War II, but the prototype was captured in 1940 and was already tested by Luftwaffe specialists.

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Preserved Westland Lysander, one of my all time favorite liaison aircraft. Bigger than you may think.

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Upvotes for boats - PBM Mariner

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A Brewster SB2A-2 Buccaneer of scouting squadron VS-7

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A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero (T2-157) abandoned at Munda Airfield (Central Solomon Islands), after the Allied Invasion, September 1943.

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Abandoned B-29 On Google Maps

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Finnish Morane-Saulnier M.S.406. The Finnish always managed to get the most out of their aircraft, in the period Nov 1939-September 1944 Finnish MS 406 fighters downed 118 enemy aircraft with own losses of 15 aircraft.

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Fw 189 Uhu of the NAG 12 in flight 1942

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A Luftwaffe caricature of a British jet fighter, WW2 [680x510]

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This photo shows the kind of structural damage that many Giganten were subjected to when landing on unimproved runways.

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RAF Bomber Command Overhead view of an early Vickers Wellington Mk I in flight [1500X1200]

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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

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A few minutes before rescue for the crew of a Fleet Air Arm Grumman Avenger after it had landed in the sea when its engine failed on leaving the carrier HMS SMITER during the operations against Sakishima in support of the American landing on Okinawa, 2nd April 1945.

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Unpainted Messerschmitt 262 surrendered by a Luftwaffe test pilot and flight instructor in March 1945 [1500x1398]

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Lockheed P-38M Lightning (Night fighter version)

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A trio of US Navy Vought OS2U-1 Kingfishers in flight in 1941

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Daimler-Benz DB 605, the heart of German Bf 109 (some versions), Bf 110, Me 410 and the Italian Fiat G.55, Macchi C.205 and Reggiane Re.2005 among others.

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An unusual view taken as an F4F comes in to land aboard the carrier USS RANGER (CV-4), CIRCA 1942, as seen from a camera mounted behind the pilot.

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The RN Fairey Barracuda remains in my opinion of the oddest WW2 carrier borne torpedo/dive bombers (both roles combined also unusual). Designed to replace the long obsolete Swordfish & Albacore biplanes saw intense and less known action in all fronts in the last part of the war.

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A formation of B-17 Flying Fortress of the 8th Air Force escorted by a P-51 Mustang, ETO, 1944

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P-47 Thunderbolt being an absolute unit on a French airfield

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SBD-5s of VB-10 return to their carrier, USS Enterprise after a strike on Palau, 30 March 1944

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The pin-up painted (or glued?) on the side of this Hurricane attracted the attention of a photographer at Drem on 15 April 1941. Unfortunately the image was deemed by higher authority to be unfit for publication and duly censored.

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During a visit to the Messerschmitt aircraft company in Augsburg in 1937 Hitler was presented with the prototype of a four-engine long-range bomber, the Me 264, which was being designed to be able to reach America’s East Coast. The idea of bombing NYC excited him. An Me 264 after a 1942 test flight.

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This is a bit different, but I think you will like it. This is in Moore County, North Carolina. 10 miles from my house.

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Aerial view of Flying Wing planes at the Northrop plant in Hawthorne in 1949. Stunning!

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Soviet Mig-3 captured with German markings.

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Boeing B-29A-45-BN Superfortress 44-61784 dropping incendiary bombs on a June 1, 1945 mission to Osaka,Japan. Note the engine is not leaking oil but rather it is the shadow of another B-29 above it.

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Sack AS-6, a rare German prototype circular-winged aircraft proposed by a farmer.

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Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Ta 152 high-altitude fighter-interceptor. Only 69 were produced and probably no mor than a dozen saw service, mostly at low-medium altitudes where it seems to have done well despite not being its main purpose.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery returning from a mission, later shot down by a German inspired to fly because of his books

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Attacking a Gigant

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Ground personnel of the 78th Fighter Group refuel a P-47 Thunderbolt at Duxford, August 1943.

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The floating remains of Boeing B-29 Superfortress 42-63418 JUMBO - KING OF THE SHOW sunk by gunfire from USS Grayson (DD-435) on January 5th 1945

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Hit to the fuselage Balkenkreuz on a Junkers Ju 88 on the Eastern Front in the Summer of 1942

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Hauptmann Rudolf-Heinz Ruffer posing with his Henschel Hs 129 B-2 after being awarded the Knight's Cross for 72 Soviet tank kills in June 1944

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F4U Corsair

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Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-7 from the JG26 stationed at Boissy-le-Bois in the North of France between Paris and Rouen, 1944.

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B-29 Superfortress “Limber Richard” of the 99th Bombardment Squadron flying on a mission toward Japan with other squadron bombers, 1945

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ju 88 with a FuG 200 Hohentwiel radar (photo taken by me)

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The last Soviet piston fighter the Lavochkin La-9.

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RAF Spitfire Vs on the deck of USS Wasp (CV-7) on the way to reinforce Malta, May 1942. At far left is an F4F of the carrier’s VF-71, in the background is HMS Eagle.

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Some humor for the weekend Lancaster bomber crew annual dinner

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Yesterday, the last flying Hawker Hurricane Mk. IV crashed in Flying days in Cheb (article plus video of the crash in the comments)

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B-17 Flying Fortress “L’il Satan” was hit by flak while returning from a mission; the navigator and bombardier were KIA, the pilot managed to get her back to base in England. June 25, 1944.

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Amiot 143 medium bombers over France.

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Final adjustments to newly built de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VI before being flight tested at Hatfield in 1943

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Martin B-10

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A U.S. Army Air Forces Bell P-39Q-1-BE Airacobra (s/n 42-19474) of the 46th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group, taking off from Makin Island in the Gilberts, December 13, 1943, just weeks after U.S. Army forces had seized the island.

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Japan’s super flying boat-too bad it never left the drawing board

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At the end of WW2 Israel managed to acquire 4 surplus Boeing B-17 and ferry them via Puerto Rico-Azores-Czechoslovakia. Only 3 made it as 1 was impounded by Portuguese authorities at Azores. On their way to Israel 1 bombed Cairo (Egypt) and 2 others Rafah.

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An F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 1, sustains a catastrophic failure while landing aboard the carrier USS Yorktown north of the Marianas, 16 Jun 1944.

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Enjoy this Hawker Hurricane built out of generic soda cans

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Curtiss SB2C Helldiver From The USS Intrepid Over Tientsin, China (1945) [2500x1869]

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BREWSTER BUFFALO FIGHTER, AMERICAN STAR MARKING AND ARMY UNDER WING SUGGEST AIRCRAFT OF AN AMERICAN UNIT BUT ON RAAF AERODROME, ANSON IN BACKGROUND. TYPE OF GOGGLES BEING WORN ALSO SUGGEST PILOT WAS AMERICAN. BUFFALO AIRCRAFT WERE OPERATED BY RAAF FOR BRIEF PERIOD IN MALAYA AGAINST JAPANESE INVASION

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B-24 Liberator in flames over Munster in early 1945

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Divin’ right in. Pilots manual for the Republic P-47 “Jug”

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Vought F4U-1D Corsairs of Fighting Squadron (VF) 5 Fighting Hellcats on the flight deck of USS Franklin (CV-13), March 1945. Note Franklin's geometric air group identification symbol on the Corsair.

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Curtiss P-40 canopy

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Original color photo of a Mustang Mark Ia of No. 268 Squadron, which received it's first Mustangs in June 1942.

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Dornier Do 18 flying boat sinking after being forced down by a RAF Coastal Command Hudson on April 14th 1940 during actions around Operation Weserubung

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A6M in progress, criticism welcome

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A combat formation of P-40’s of the American Volunteer Group (the Flying Tigers) flying over China; c - 1941-42.

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Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service fighter Kyushu J7W Shinden in the wind tunnel, 1944.

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One of the first soda can airplanes I built years ago - Pepsi Can F4U Corsair...

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Junkers Ju 89 heavy bomber, expected to be one of the Luftwaffe strategic bombers in the late 30s. Although promising, the Army lobbied Goring into supporting the CAS doctrine and together with limited resources favored tactical bombers. Only 2 prototypes were built and served as heavy transports.

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Tail section of Avro Lancaster Mk III ED865 AJ-S of No. 617 Squadron lost with its entire crew after being hit by flak at low altitude during the Dambusters Raid in the early hours of May 17th 1943

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The photographer captured this B-17 just a second after it released its bomb load.

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A Chance Vought F4U Corsair makes a jet assisted take-off from the deck of a carrier on September 9, 1944.

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Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-3 of III/JG 2 at RAF Pembrey. Luftwaffe pilot Armin Faber confused the Bristol Channel for the English Channel and mistakenly landed his FW 190 fighter at an RAF airfield on June 23, 1942. After realizing his mistake Faber unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide.

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Buffalo in a box.

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Hurricane being made ready for the next scramble... September 1940.

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This desert based Bf 110 carries a nose armament of 4 x 13mm MG 131 machine guns; a deviation from the standard armament of 4 x 7.92mm MG 17 machine guns.

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P-51 flying aside an F-82 twin mustang

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An RAF Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber loaded with 8 x 60 pound air-to-ground high explosive rockets and 560 x 20-mm cannon rounds is ready for the next sortie.

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Captured German Messerschmitt Me 262. The pic is remarkable as this is a Me 262 A-2a/U2 variant with a glazed nose for a bombardier, only 2 prototypes were built. Weimar, Germany, May 1945.

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Douglas TBD Devastators in USN pre-war livery.

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Vought F4U Corsair on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge during the Korean War.

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Loading torpedos in Fairey Albacore aircraft onboard HMS Victorious en route from Scapa Flow to to Hvalfjord, Iceland, November 1941. The Albacore has the dubious title of failing to replace the Swordfish and in several cases being replaced itself by the Swordfish with radar sets.

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Dornier Do 24 flying boat

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USAAF A-36A Apache dive-bombers in transit to Europe. The plane in the foreground is serial number 42-84052. The plane behind it is serial number 42-84054.

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Messerschmitt Bf 110 of Zerstorergeschwader 76 in flight

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29-May-1940, just over 83 years ago the Vought XF4U-1 prototype flies for the 1st time to eventually become the F4U Corsair.

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BV 138 MS Seedrache minesweeping aircraft being lifted onto a seaplane tender.

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Can’t you hear this picture?

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Solomon Islands. May 1943. IJN Petty Officer 1st Class Hiroyoshi Nishizawa flying his Mitsubishi A6M3 Type 0 Model 22 fighter. (1280 x 673)

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Allied planes dropping para-bombs on Mitsubishi Ki-21 bombers, when looking closely a Japanese pilot can be seen exiting the cockpit. Old Namlea airport, Buru Island Dutch East Indies, October 15, 1944

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TBM Avenger of Torpedo Squadron VT-10 aboard USS Enterprise with machine gun holes in the wing following air-to-air combat with a Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 “Tony” fighter off Truk, Caroline Islands, 16 Feb 1944.

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P-61B-15 test firing at the factory.

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264 Squadron Boulton Paul Defiant, this time in night-fighting colours. Date some time in 1941. Note the dulled white areas of the markings and the general scruffy appearance of the black paint finish.

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British Wing Commander Hugh Willie Wilson at the controls of a captured Focke Wulf Fw 190A-3. On June 23, 1942 Oberleutnant Armin Faber became disoriented while flying the plane over Southwest England and accidentally landed in Southern Wales.

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B-17 bombers of the 398th BG taxiing into position. The thoughts of those crews must have been intense.

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USAAF Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighters arrive in the port of Liverpool, England, 1943.

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British biplane makes a near vertical carrier landing in strong winds

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Over the weekend, someone posted a picture of a P38 on the ground with clear blue sky's. I said it was a photoshop fake. So here is the original picture that was taken in 1944.

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Not my photo but the Military Aviation Museum here in Virginia Beach, Virginia is getting a flying Zero!!!!!!! (I’ll get photos once it arrives)

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A WASP pilot in a p51 mustang date unknown

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Northrop P-61 Black Widow ( No. 42-239754) was the 1st US plane designed as a night fighter, and to use radar. With a crew of 3: pilot, gunner, radar operator armed with 4 20-mm (.79 in) Hispano M2 forward-firing cannon in the lower fuselage and 4 .50 in Browning machine guns in a dorsal gun turret.

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German Mistel composite aircraft at the airport of Magdeburg (1945) [1500X1023]

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Junkers Ju 88 of Kampfgeschwader 1 in an undignified position on the Eastern Front

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P-51B of the 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, somewhere over England, 1944

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A really impressive wind tunnel where a Messerschmitt Bf 109 is being evaluated [1500x1133]

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