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Bf 109 takes out a British barrage balloon in 1940

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A PBY Catalina at the 2013 Chino Planes of Fame airshow.

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He-111s over the Eastern Front, 1942

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Douglas XB-19 experimental long range bomber.

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A USN pilot climbs up his Grumman F4F Wildcat after a landing gone wrong.

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B-17 Tail Gunner Window

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Junkers Ju 87 Stuka rearmed for a dive bombing mission South of Lake Ladoga on the Eastern Front in early 1944

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An A20 Havoc and P47 Thunderbolt had a landing mishap. Hard to tell what happened but the P47 has a broken prop, missing most of the wing and has an A20 propeller stuck in the fuselage.

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How to ditch a Consolidated B-24 Liberator.

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Question: on the P40, what's the purpose of this recessed portion of the fuselage if there's just glass over it? Couldn't they have just made that part flush with the rest of the side of the airplane?

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The Russians received 1 dH Mosquito for evaluation, this was after flight 2. 1944.

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Ilyushin Il-2M Shturmovik at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. This example was shot down during the Siege of Leningrad and is now on display in one of the museum's hangars.

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Soviet ace and hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Pokryshkin with this P-39 Airacobra in the Eastern front, 1943(?) - World War II

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Plotting of German bombs dropped during the Battle of England.

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The beautiful FM-2 Wildcat of the Military Aviation Museum. Took this picture yesterday with the pilots training.

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Germans inspecting Soviet planes. The plane in the front is Yakovlev UT-1 and the one in the back is Polikarpov I-16. 1961

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452nd BG, 730th BS Bomber B-17G 44-6165. On return from Chemnitz Mission on Feb 6 1945, flak hit that damaged the instruments and force landed down in field near Ghent, Belgium. After repairs flew back to UK and crash landed at base. Returned to the US and sold for scrap metal at Kingman Arizon

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The Messerschmitt Bf 109 turned 86 this week! First flew on late May 1935, here one of the initial models fitted with a 2 blade propeller.

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Focke-Wulf Fw 190s

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A couple of rarities caught in action.

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Major Loren W. Herway of Indianola, Iowa, examining the damage inflicted on his 9th Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt by a direct hit from 88 mm flak. It was the 124th combat mission for the 23 year old squadron commander of the 362nd fighter group.

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Last Luftwaffe flight over the UK was this Arado Ar 234 over Scotland, April 11 1945.

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A photographer captured this Douglas A-20 Havoc a fraction of a second after loosing its tail as a result of a German flak hit. France, 1944.

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FiFi at the Long Beach airport. Nov 2007. You have to see a person standing next to the props to grasp just how big they were. [OC]

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B-29 week. FIFI by Joerg Spantzel - California Capital Airshow 2016 (6016x4016)

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I'd be smiling too if I got my Hurricane back with that much damage!

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A Luftwaffe crew abandons their Messerschmitt Bf 110 after ditching in the English Channel, 1940.

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B-17 goes down inverted after a direct AA hit. Looks like a couple of 'chutes opening lower left.

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Captain Edwin O. Fisher of the 362nd Fighter Group, atop his P-47 Thunderbolt

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B-29 over Osaka. With a small oil leak?

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Mitsubishi Zero on Pagan island in the Marianas

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what are these Things under the Wings for?

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Interesting clip of a Fw 190 getting shot at. The clarity of the footage really shows the details of the plane.

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P-51B (Polish Sqd) escorting a Bristol Beaufighter (NZ Sqd), both on their way to targets in Norway. There is a lot of punch packed there.

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My wife's Grandfather was an air tower radio operator in WW2. This is one good picture he took

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Iconic aircraft, iconic location.

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Captain Fumisuke Shono’s Kawasaki Ki-61-I Hei “Hien” fighter of the 244th Sentai over Tokyo Bay in February of 1945

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A Heinkel He 111 of the Luftwaffe, seen from another He 111 during the Battle of Britain. England, September 1940, colorized

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Eight United States Army aircraft on the ground, clock-wise from the fire truck: Martin B-26 Marauder, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Republic P-43 Lancer, Bell P-39 Airacobra, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Douglas B-23 Dragon and North American B-25 Mitchell. Wright Field, Ohio, 1941

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Learning to fly in formation, 1942. RAF cadets practice basic skills.

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A Royal Navy Fairey Barracuda II (s/n P9926) torpedo bomber from Lee-on-Solent Fleet Air Arm Station, Hampshire (UK), with torpedo, in flight; c. 1944

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Close up pic of a 37 mm anti-tank gun mounted on a Lutfwaffe Junkers Ju-87 Stuka, it would carry one under each wing. This is a captured aircraft being inspected by Allied soldiers. Salzburg, Austria, 1945.

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A pair of B-18 Bolo's and a C-47 at Albrook Filed, Canal Zone. January 25th 1943. The Bolo's were being used for anti sub patrols.

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Ran across the picture I took while volunteering at the Military Aviation Museum here in Virginia Beach. Warbirds and beautiful skies not too much to ask for these days.

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Another screen grab from the Mustang, flying along with the Me 262 and the B-24 during 2013 over Texas

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USAAF B-29 Superfortress being escorted by P-51 Mustangs from Iwo Jima to Japan - 1945

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Great news a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero Model 32 serial number 3148 which is being currently restored by Bob Hammer’s Legend Flyers, located at Paine Field in Everett, Washington is getting Close to Airworthiness.

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A P-47D chasing a Me-262, not a real pic, but my new game's main menu scene, thought it had its place here!

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CAC Boomerang, a small Australian made fighter introduced in 1943. Although not on par with its contemporaries it was heavily armed and sturdy. It found a place later on close air support tasks.

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Women making an aluminum tube for men to die in

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B-29 Doc taking off

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German engineering. The liquid cooled inverted V-12 powering the Bf-109.

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B-29 publicity photo

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Does anybody know the story of this wreck of this SB2 Helldiver?

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Luftwaffe Bucker Bu 181 Bestmann light trainer armed with Panzerfaust antitank rocket launchers in the last days of the Battle of Berlin, March-April 1945. The panzerfaust was a close range AT infantry weapon, so accuracy from this kind of platform and longer firing ranges could not be any good.

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Supermarine Seafire LF III

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USN planes on the deck of USS Essex, note the engines running. 1944.

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Yak 9U in US markings.

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Range of bomb sizes used by the RAF in WWII.

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RR Griffon powered Spitfire Mk XIV, fast enough to intercept and tip V1 flying bombs.

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Grandfather walking to his B24.

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This book is a must for all ww2 aircraft enthusiasts. Which books do you like in this genre?

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A C-47 Skytrain/Dakota on the runway at Gibraltar during WWII. Searchlights pierce the sky behind her. Colourised by me.

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In coloured a B-24 Liberator begins the instantaneous process of disintegration as it splits in half and explodes during at attack near Hanau, Germany, on 12 Dec. 1944.

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Any book recommendations for WWII aircraft research? These are the ones I already got:

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Can anyone give me some details about this aircraft? The model, etc

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Loire 46, a French representative of the monoplane gull wing trend of the 30s that in 1939 was completely obsolete. Yet, the French retained them as advanced trainers into WW2, and at least 1 fighter escadrille still used them and saw action again the Luftwaffe.

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An SBD makes a slow pass over the deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6) in order to drop a message during the Doolittle Raid, 18 May 1942

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The Overloon War Museum has been given a permanent loan of a British Lancaster bomber that was excavated in Belgium

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Enjoy this Pepsi can airplane Grumman F6F Hellcat that looks like its ready for takeoff!

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Adolf Galland (104 aerial victories) with his wingman Joachim Muncheberg (135 aerial victories) of JG26 in their Bf 109Es

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B-18A of the 7th Bomb Group, 11th Bomb Squadron at March Field (California).

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909, I will miss you

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Rear gunner's perspective of a 15th AF B-24 Liberator going down over Germany in late 1944

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A very high price was paid. Flak salvo's on 13 January 1945 hit the 303rd BG hard. 2/Lt O.T. Eisenhart’s 338689/GN:A took a direct hit in the tail and plummeted earthwards. No one escaped. The target that day was a a rail bridge at Mannheim.

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A Fw 190D-9 downed by a partridge which flew into the nose radiator

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Armstrong Whitworth A.W.35 Scimitar biplane fighters in Norwegian service. Only 6 were made, 4 of them for Norway in 1936. At the time of the German invasio in 1940 the Scimitars were all undergoing maintenance and could not be made operational in time to see combat.

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Junkers Ju 87 R-2/Trop Werknummer 5954 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL. This aircraft was captured by British forces in 1941 in North Africa, and delivered to the US for evaluation in WWII. Besides the Stuka in the RAF Museum, it is the last intact Stuka in a museum.

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Junkers Ju 287 circa late 1944. The Ju 287 was a testbed for the development of multi-engine jet bombers. Among other features it had a forward-swept wing (unique for the time) but also a fixed landing gear. Only 1 was operational and another one nearly completed before the end of the war.

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262 from the B-24 over Puget Sound...who'd of thought :)

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P-51D Mustangs parked at an airfield in Iwo Jima (July 1945)

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Did you say big?

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The US Navy obtained 2 surplus P-63 Kingcobras and had Bell installing on them swept wings for research on low-speed and stall characteristics of high-speed wing designs. The USN designated them L-39. Circa 1946.

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A Finnish soldier takes the opportunity to seat in a downed Soviet Yak-9. September, 1944. (colorized by Jared Enos)

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Antisubmarine Mosquito FB XVIII with its 57mm 6lb cannon and 4x .303 MGs

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Horten H.IV high performance glider, 1941. The undeniable look of the future Horten designs.

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Douglas A-1 Skyraider, although famous for its interventions in Korea and specially in Vietnam the A-1 has its origins in WW2 specs to follow on the Avenger and Helldiver, with the first prototype flying in March 1945 and designed by no other than Ed Heinemann.

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Regia Aeronautica Macchi C.205 Veltro, probably in Sicily.

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Martin B-262B Marauder Flak Bait being conserved at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Flak Bait flew 206 missions from 1943 to 1945, more than any other American bomber in WWII. When completed, the aircraft will be displayed fully assembled at the museum, retaining it's original WWII paint and damage

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Consolidated B-24 heavy bombers reach the English shore after a mission, summer 1943. See pic for colorization credits.

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M47 100-pound (45.4-kilogram) incendiaries rain down on the docks of Kobe on June 5, 1945 from AAF B-29 Superfortresses, as the landing piers and buildings of the city are burning below, 4 Jun 1945. On June 5 that same year, Kobe was bombed again.

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The Royal Navy escort aircraft carrier HMS Reaper, delivering nine captured Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighters to New York on 31 July 1945.

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B-29 (very) heavy landing ?

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A Japanese DC-3 falls in flammes. Little known but in fact it was the most important Japanese transport of WW2. It was produced under license and known as Showa L2D and Nakajima L2D reaching almost 500 units.

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P-39 Aircobras of the RAF 601st Squadron on the field at Duxford 1941

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My grand dad’s B29 manual

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Life was in color too back then. RAF Flying Officer JB Burnside, flight engineer on board an Avro Lancaster B Mk III of No. 619 Squadron RAF based at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, checks settings on the control panel from his seat in the cockpit. February 1944. Color by Doug.

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B-25 Making a test firing of the guns.

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Luftwaffe Dornier Do 26 transport and reconnaissance flying boat. Only six were ever built. (1989 x 1278)

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Holder of the Knight's Cross, Sergeant Major Karl Steffen (1918 - 1943) with the Messerschmitt Bf.109E fighter. The photograph was taken between July 1942 and July 1943, when Steffen served as an instructor at ErgJg.Ost.

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Captain Fumisuke Shono’s Kawasaki Ki-61-Hei “Hien” armed with 2x wing mounted German made 20mm MG151/20 cannons (I commissioned Colour by RJM to colorize this photo)

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Ball Turret Gun on Memphis Belle at National Air Force Museum.

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Fleet Air Arm 1836NAS Corsair II T8G landing mishap HMS Smiter 1944 IWM A29168

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Spitfire Mk IX with former Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield at the controls

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Northrop P-61 Black Widow

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Hey all - I'm a C-17 pilot in the RAAF, but in my spare time I design retro aircraft stickers. I thought y'all might like the latest pack I just made. If this sort of thing stirs your loins you can find them here: www.retro-pilot.com/ww2

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Hawker Typhoon MN235, used to be displayed in my hometown of Ottawa, Ontario, but it's back home at the RAF museum in the UK. I always liked this aircraft, especially after I found out my grandfather built the engines for them as an apprentice tool and die maker.

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Read the fine print

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I'm guessing this is a PBJ of US Navy?

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Low altitude bombing trials with the Martin B-26C Marauder medium bomber. This was the 2nd unit built of the C model.

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A beautiful overhead view of a P-38 flying over England.

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Rearming a Messerschmitt Bf 110 of Zerstorergeschwader 26

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4 days ago the Military Aviation Museum, which I volunteer at, received this beautifully unrestored Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless that was taken out of Lake Michigan back in 1994.

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Five P-47s (one a razorback) with three P-51s. I don't know where or when this photo was taken. Can anyone add context here?

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Developing the laminar flow wing of the P51 in the wind tunnel.

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Inside the nose position of a B-18 Bolo at Barksdale, Louisiana, 1941

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P51s leaving the Inglewood CA factory.

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I make the total 126.

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An F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron (VF) 15 launches from the hangar deck catapult of USS Hornet (CV-12) during training in Chesapeake Bay, 12 February 1944. The early Essex-class carriers had been built with a hangar-level catapult, called the HIVA catapult (actually, H-4A) that shot planes out

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Soviet Air Force Lavochkin La-5, unknown place, 1944. The La-5 turned out to be one of the most capable Soviet fighters on par with his German adversaries.

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B-25B Cutaway drawing.

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Kamikazi takes a direct hit, Kwajalein 1943.

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English countryside viewed from the upper mid gun turret of an Avro Lancaster

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P-47. And an unknown man watching it.

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Ace pilots of 9th Guards Air Guards. Left to right: Alexander Klubov (31 kills), Grigory Rechkalov (52 kills), Andrey Trud (25 kills) and Boris Glinka (30 kills). In the background is Rechkalov’s Bell P-39 Airacobra.

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Cadillac of the Sky

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Fuddy Duddy sitting pretty inside its hanger at the Lyons Museum, Orange County, California. July 2017

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B-25 assembly, Kansas City plant.

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They were so young. Bolo Babe of the 384th Bomb Group after crash landing in France, 9 September 1944. Note the French boy hanging out of the radio gunners hatch.

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While over Japan, the inboard propeller spun off and took out the outboard propeller. They had to fly 700 miles home on two engines

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First time in the 2 years I’ve been volunteering at the Military Aviation Museum I got to see my favorite non-airworthy bird out in the sun. Had to snap this photo for you guys! (1280X720)

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Short Sunderland flying boat of No. 10 Squadron RAAF taking off in 1940

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[OC] WW2 Plane quick sketches, hope you like them

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Somewhat splintered by flak Mosquito.

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Flamethrowing Sherman tanks set fire to Japanese aircraft in Sasebo, Japan (2 Nov 1945)

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battle-damaged B 29 landing on Iwo Jima (the main reason we needed that lousy island)

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I like this type of Mosquito. At the Chino Planes of Fame. Nov 20 2021.

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My dad in 1945. Navy aviator in ww2. He is now 99 yo and still with us!

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Whirlwind in your 6.

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This Bf-109 was outstanding in it's field !

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Another cutaway of a B-17C. I have a large collection of these types of diagrams if you would like to see more.

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US B-17 Flying Fortress Miss Donna Mae II is hit by bombs after drifting under the bomber flying above it. The damage to the horizontal stabilizer caused the plane to go into an uncontrollable spin and crash, killing all 11 crew members.

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B-26K (Invader) of the 609th Special Operations Squadron over South Vietnam - 1969

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Top scoring rocket interceptor pilot in history Feldwebel Siegfried Schubert with his Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet

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Close up of the dive brakes of a Dauntless.

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Horsepower

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Assembly line for the pressurized cockpit of the USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortress

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