Color profile of the Soviet two-seat modification of the American fighter P-63 Kingcobra with the designation UTI (education-training fighter) P-63. Designed for quick training of pilots for this fighter.

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Whats the pole behind the cockpit and what does it do?

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PBY Catalina engine adjustments on the go

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A North American Mustang Mk.IA on a test flight from NAA's Inglewood, California facility in October 1942. The painted-over serial number is 41-37416. It was damaged during shipment to Europe in late 1943.

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F6F- 5 Hellcat just hanging around on the deck of the escort carrier USS Takanis Bay.

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North American P-51 Mustang in assembly line

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Target Tokyo- a formation Of Boeing B-29 Superfortresses en route from Guam, May 1945.

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Color footage of an early B-17's final approach on Pearl Harbor in the Spring of 1942

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On the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) a crewman is checking out a drone prior to launch. May 23, 1945.

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November 5th, 1943, A Dauntless on board the US aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. This hole cost a man’s life. The gunner in this Navy bomber was killed by a 20mm shell from a Japanese Zero during the US Navy raid on Rabaul.

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BF-109 with North Africa camouflage colors.

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Junkers Ju-87 Stuka commercial poster.

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A Spitfire aircraft carrying kegs of beer for Allied troops fighting in Normandy, June 1944

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On July 28th, 1935 the prototype of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (Boeing XB-17 Model 299) flew for the first time. It would be destroyed in a crash three months later. Despite the initial setback, the B-17 would go on to become one of the most iconic bombers of the Second World War.

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A pilot of No. 6 Squadron RAF stands by his Hawker Hurricane Mark IID fighter at Shandur, Egypt. This view shows the 40 mm Vickers anti-tank cannons fitted to the Mark IID. These Hurricanes were very effective “tank busters”; c. 1942

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P-38 My grampa flying over the pacific.. if you see where he wrote on his pix.. thats him in the plane.. he loved to fly .. and now he's just flying higher .. WW2 P-38 FIGHTER PILOT

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Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant bringing supplies to a forward airfield on the Eastern Front

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Found this while looking through some photos my great-great-grandfather sent my family. Any idea what exactly I'm seeing here?

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Grumman F4F Wildcat goes over the side

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RAF Lancaster drops in for a drink.

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Erich Hartmann the worlds best fighter ace (352 confirmed kills)

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Olympic distance runner Louis Zamperini atop a B-18A Bolo at Midland Flying School, 1943

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HA-1112 aircraft in flight, 3 Sep 2005

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The defensive armament of the Ju 88A-1 already included two separate rear-firing 7.92-mm MG 15 machine guns - instead of one twin installation on the first production vehicles. But now they had to be served by different crew members.

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Pilot Officer Stanisław Blok with his 315 Squadron Spitfire IX BS409 damaged in a dogfight with Fw 190s on February 3rd 1943

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On this day 90 years ago, Aug 11, 1937. The first flight of the Boulton Paul Defiant aircraft was made at Wolverhampton, England. This first prototype was flown without the gun turret and with ballast added to compensate for the turret and its gunner.

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Short S25 Sunderland V 1944 ( RAF museum, London )

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The first of 60 production de Havilland Hornet F.1s making high speed low level passes in 1945

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Unthinkable during WW2, a Spitfire leads a formation with a Corsair and a FW-190. Was to be seen at the Airpower 2019 in Zeltweg, Austria.

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For this Veterans Day. Those are his guardian angel crewmates. The ones that did not survive. For all these years they have been watching over him, keeping him out of harms way. They are just waiting for him to make his final sortie and they will be waiting for him.

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Found out today that this beauty is hangared less than 15 minutes from my house.

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Can anyone help identify this plane?

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Douglas B-18A Bolo's over San Juan Puerto Rico. November 5th 1940

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F7F-3 Tigercat 80462 Long Island 1945.

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The airgunner on the picture is Major David G. Bellemere and behind him is the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber ‘Tepee Time Gal’.

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Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver makes it's landing approach, as seen from the carrier's fantail. Note the carrier's wake. The plane guard destroyer at left, and effect of the SB2C's color scheme.

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He 177 bomber in flight, circa 1942-1945.

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A restored North American A-36A Mustang aircraft in flight, post-war; note 'chin' guns and closed dive brakes.

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A B-17 of the 339th Bomb Squad 96th BG in a raid over Germany in 1944. this image was restored by graphic designer Nathan Howland from Brighton, England who used his expertise to add the color

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Imperial Japanese Army Kawasaki Ki-78. It was a high-speed research aircraft mounting a German liquid-cooled inverted V12 Daimler-Benz DB 601 produced under license in Japan. It was the same engine that equipped the Bf-109.

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The Bachem Ba 349, The Reich's Experimental Wunderwaffe

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Spitfire XVI (clipped wing) of the BBMF at RAF Coningsby doing an engine run. Taken by me.

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my ex took this shot from Betty Jane heading down the Chicago skyline

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After the introduction of the Boulton Paul Defiant, the RAF put out a disinformation campaign, stating that the Defiant had 21 guns.

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FM-2 Wildcat fighter of US Navy Composite Squadron 93 flying over Petrof Bay off Okinawa, Japan, March-May 1945.

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Avenger crash landed on Enterprise after friendly fire from a Hellcat.

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Beautifully restored P-40 Warhawk from the Military Aviation Museum.

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German heavy fighter Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse showing the side rearfiring remotely operated turrets, one in each side. The so called Ferngerichtete Drehringseitenlafette FDSL 131/1B turrets, each with a MG131 13 mm heavy machine gun.

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The German Bf-109 was really a narrow plane...

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Grumman JRF-6B flying boat operated by the British Fleet Air Arm as the Goose Mk IA in flight in April 1942

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On Dec 29, 1944 RCAF Flight Lt. Dick Audet destroys 5 German planes in 10 minutes in France. By the end of January 1945 he had claimed a further five victories and shared a sixth. He was killed in action on 3 March 1945 near Coesfeld, Germany.

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B-25 takes a bow, konnichiwa Mitchell san.

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Me262, Frankfurt, May 1945.

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P-47 Thunderbolt cockpit

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Lt Butch O'Hare with his F4F-3 Wildcat at Kaneohe NAS Hawaii... April 1942.

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Brewster F2A Buffalo of the US Navy; August 1942, by then the Buffalo was relegated to training duties, having for the most part proved it was no match to the Japanese fighters. This was especially true in Malaya and in the Battle of Midway. Although the Finns had some success vs. the Soviets.

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USAAF B-17 ingenuity.

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Ilyushin Il-20 - a Soviet prototype for a heavily armored ground-attack aircraft to replace the Il-2

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Here’s a P38 for your enjoyment tonight!

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The 5000th Lockheed P-38 Lighting built, finished in 1944 and temporarily painted like this to commemorate the occasion.

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Wartime propaganda composite image of a Fw 190 chasing a Spitfire

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Texas National Guard P-51 Mustangs flying over battleship USS Texas

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This B-17G Fortress saw no service during World War II but was purchased from surplus in 1947 and installed at this gas station in Milwaukie, Oregon with only 37 total hours on the engines, photo circa 1959

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USS Wisconsin (BB-64) crewman are checking the control surface of a drone with the pilot prior to prior to be catapulted. May 23rd, 1945. I dont have any other info on what drone this is. Its interesting though because these drones were in use during wartime.

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WWII Wildcat Airplane in Solomon Islands

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F-51D Mustang fighters at an airfield in Korea, 1952

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IJN Kyushu J7W Shinden. The Imperial Japanese Navy began development of this fighter in mid 1944 and only managed to complete 2 prototypes before the end of the war. An interesting concept that was expected to operate from land bases against USAAF B-29 formations.

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Japanese bf-109 e/7 Japanese airbase date unknown

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A-26B Invaders unload their bombs over the Siegfried Line in early 1945

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Brutal dogfight near a B-17 Flying Fortress in January 1943

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Spitfires ready to scramble Duxford 2022

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15th AAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber with a hole made by a 20 mm shell from a German fighter. The shell proved to be a dud, and did not explode after penetrating.

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Bf.109E-4 , 7./JG 53,Serial: 6+| ,Pilot - Lt.Herbert Schramm. December 1940. For a short the time aircraft of III Group (7./8./9.staffel) didn't wear a tail swastika. It was protest of pilots against the reproach of Luftwaffe command

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Junkers Ju 52/3m in service with the USAAF 20th Transportation Squadron, 6th Air Force, 1942, Panama Canal Zone. Never knew this, story in comments.

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An F6F Thunderbolt has a bad landing on a carrier. ............ And I know its a Hellcat :P

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What are these bumps on the BF 109's fuselage?

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Ground crew props an engine on the only ever Douglas XB-19 heavy bomber, the largest USAAF plane until 1946. (3340x1326)

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General Motors FM-2 Wildcats of Composite Squadron (VC) 93 aboard USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) prepare for a mission supporting the invasion of Okinawa, 25 March 1945. I am amazed that the Wildcats were still being used that late in the war. Hellcats were a dime a dozen at that time.

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I’ve always been interested in the Flying Tigers, my relative was one (pictured here). 3rd Squadron, “Hells Angels”. He did make donations to some museums that I’d like to visit one day. I would like to know what specific plane this is if anyone knows. Thanks!

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I have been personally attacked

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Last week I walked into a toy store and found this, what seems to be a cross between a P-51 Mustang and a P-40 Warhawk.

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Bristol Beaufighter Mk IC heavy fighter / strike aircraft of No. 31 Squadron RAAF. (1613 x 871)

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Dutch Curtiss Wright 21 B fighter in the Dutch East Indies, 1941

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Finnish air ace Hans wind next to his Brewster buffalo date unknown

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Hawker Sea Fury Powered by the Bristol Centaurus, eighteen cylinder, sleeve valve, radial engine producing 2480 horsepower. Capable of 460-480 miles per hour. Armed with four twenty MM canons, rockets, and bombs. Over eight hundred were built. First flight was 21 February 1945

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It’s the Spitfire’s 85th birthday! Captain Joseph Summers flew the first prototype on this day in 1936. R. J. Mitchell’s famous design became the symbol of the British resistance in WWII..

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British Avengers (American torpedo bombers) are shown above en route to Japan on a bombing mission; c. 1945.

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Battle damaged B-17G from 379th Bomb Group, June 1944.

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Old meets new - Me-109 and Eurocopter Tiger

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Mitsubishi J8M Shusui (Autumn Water). July 7th, 1945, IJN Cpt. Toyohiko Inuzuka prepares to make the first flight test of the type. Some minutes into the flight the engine stopped and he crash-landed dying the next day as a consequence of his injuries.

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A Douglas SBD Dauntless of Marine squadron VMB-2 has an encounter with a house at Rockwell Field, California. Early-1941.

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31 Aug 1943. US Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander James H. Flatley's Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat warming up on the deck of USS Yorktown (CV-10), preparing to attack Marcus Island. (1541 x 979)

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The Curtiss P-40Q, Intended To Compete With The P-51, This Was The Fastest P-40 Variant But Did Not Enter Service.

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Russian Shturmovik ground attack aircraft in action over Berlin in April 1945 as the Red Army's last major offensive commences.

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Last three images of B-17F Lady Liberty cut in half by a direct flak hit on August 19th 1943

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The Bell XFL-1 Airabonita, a prototype carrier-based version of the company’s P-39. Testing was unsuccessful and the single airframe was disposed of at NAS Patuxent River.

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Westland Lysander prototype stripped of its skin

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Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8/N operated by the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California. A full-scale replica built by Flug Werk GmbH and powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 due to the lack of BMW 801s, it is painted in the markings of an A-9 flown by Sturmstaffel 1 ace Oskar Bosch, who had 18 kills.

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The curious career of Lt Col Curdes.

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Wife and kids, living in the base, wave good bye to husband & father USAF Capt. Gosnell departing for a combat mission over Korea in his F-82 Twin Mustang. The F-82 originated in late 1943 as a very long range escort for B-29 going beyond range of other US fighters. The F-82 first flew in Jan 1945.

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Air Vice Marshal Keith Park taxiing his personal Spitfire V, Malta, Safi airfield.

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Hawker Hurricane & pilots in a CAM (catapult aircraft merchant) ship in Iceland. Lacking escort carriers the idea was to provide some air cover to convoys catapulting battered Hurricanes and once the mission or the fuel was over bail out or ditch the plane and await rescue by a convoy escort vessel

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Members of 95th Bomb Squadron pose in front of a Douglas B-23 Dragon at McChord Field, Tacoma, 1941. The B-23 was intended to be a successor for the B-18 Bolo, but was outclassed by the B-25 and B-26. As such only 38 were built with most ending up as trainers or transport aircraft.

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Flying from the USS Lexington are three Grumman F2F-1. Late 1941. Original color photo. (Note the tail color is lemon yellow but the wing color is chrome yellow)

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RAF Lancaster of 101 Sqd as part of a 1,000 bomber raid over Duisburg, Germany, on 14-15 Oct 1944. The image on the left is the release of 'Window' radar jamming aluminum strips while the image on the right taken a second later show the release of a 4,000 lb. HC cookie and 108 30 lb incendiary bombs

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Aboard USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109), a Plane Director uses arm signals to position a TBM Avenger bomber on the ship's starboard catapult, during operations off Kyushu, Japan, 8 September 1945. Flight deck crewmen are attaching a catapult bridle to the plane.

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North American P-51 Mustang fighters smuggle under the wings of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress for the trip back to Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, 1945. (3596x4589)

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The truth hurts? LOL

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One of my all time faovrite paintings

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Early B-18 Bolo at Wright Field

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Pilot's view of a Ju 87 Stuka dive bombing run from start to finish

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P-47s being serviced at the former Luftwaffe base Fritzlar Germany Y-86(?) at the Stuttgart airport. This is the 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force. Date us late April or early 1945.

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Avro Lancaster as seen from the tail turret of another Avro Lancaster.

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A Nakajima J9N1 Kikka being readied for flight at Kisarazu Naval Airfield, August 1945.

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B-18 Bolo, or in this case the Douglas Digby as flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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I am not sure if this is the right place but anyone know what this engine is from? Been sitting out back here as long as I can remember.

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A Mosquito in its natural element. I took this on Saturday at the Chino Planes of Fame. [OC] Nov 2021

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Can anyone identify the plan in the background?

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B-17G K8-G (in back) 42-102593 of the 398th Bomb Group. K8-G had one hundred missions to its credit and survived the war. Returned to the US to be scrapped at Kingman Arizona.

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The Great P.12 Delanne Lysander

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Fisher P-75 Eagle - a confusing mishmash of a plane that never saw combat service.

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ID? Philippines 1944

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B-18 Bolo's of the 7th Bomb Group in formation on September 18 1938. Note the turret like contraption on the plane in front.

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Avro Lancaster 150 B MK VII - NX611 Just Jane at Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Center, UK. Not my Photo just sharing out of Appreciation. Hoping to get a snap of her sometime next year at IWM Duxford Air Museum.

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Nice set of Jugs! (P-47 Thunderbolts)

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U.S. Navy personnel free a PBY Catalina from Kodiak Bay, Alaska

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Original Kodachrome photo of Lt. Col. David Schilling’s P-47 Thunderbolt, nicknamed “Hairless Joe,” lined up with another P-47 for takeoff from the 56th Fighter Group’s home at Boxstead airfield in England in 1944 or 1945. This rare color view survives because of the long-lasting Kodachrome emulsion

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Hawker Hurricanes of No. 303 Polish Squadron of RAF, during World War II

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P-47D Thunderbolt Razorback “Spittin’ Kitten. USS Manila Bay, June 1944 [1500x1211]

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B-17G Round trip tospy landing gear failure?

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Preserved P-51 Mustang Berlin Express crossing the North Atlantic in summer of 2017, here flying over Greenland. Article link in comments.

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A hangar full of asymmetry.

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A B-25 Mitchell from the 77th Bomb Squadron flying southeast of Attu in 1943.

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B18 flying somewhere over Sweden, unknown year

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Supercharger replacement for a USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt in Germany in October 1945

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Ground crew examine a newly arrived B-32 at Clark Field, Luzon, May 1945

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Luftwaffe ground personnel has detached the tail of this Messerschmitt Bf 109 to repair the wiring. France, 1940.

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Recovery of a Bf-109.

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French fighter ace Pierre Clostermann in his Hawker Tempest.

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I’m pretty sure that this is a wrong statistical statement. Right?

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Nine-O-Nine, Texas Raiders, Liberty Belle, and Witchcraft [Willow Run, 2010]

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1st ever Goodwood Revival in '98 was opened by Ray Hanna who failed to mention that his display would end with a flypast over the start line at 20ft !

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Full-frontal F4U Corsair sexiness

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BTD-1 Destroyer aircraft at rest, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, circa 1945

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Fighter row at the 2012 Chino Planes of Fame airshow.

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