/r/WWIIplanes
Discussion and photos relating to WWII aviation.
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Genuine question:
Why was the bf 110 so long? And also couldn't the back gunner just reload the cannon? Why do they need a separate guy?? Why wasn't it more like the IL2m shturmovik?
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What happens when you park your TBF Avenger too close to the 5" guns
05:23 UTC
Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat BuNo 121752 of the Erickson Airplane Collection at the Arlington Skyfair, 2024.
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Regia Aeronautica Macchi MC200 Saetta of 37 Squadriglia, 37 8 force landed Benghazi.
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Hawker Hurricanes RRAF Esc 53 Red 6 Rumania 1941
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Hawker Hurricane (on left) and a recently assembled American built Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk single seat fighter aircraft parked on an apron at a Ministry of Aircraft Production aerodrome near Bath, England during World War II on 7th February 1941.
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WW2 fighter stearing
Whether the control surfaces of World War II fighters were directly connected to the control stick, whether they had steering assistant and what force was needed to make combat turns?
22:22 UTC
German pilots with a Caudron C.445 of French production. After the German occupation of France 44 S.445 aircraft and 10 aircraft were requisitioned S.445M, were also produced during the war
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Airmen ground crew, assisted by soldiers and sailors, load a Mark XII aerial torpedo into the bomb bay of a Bristol Beaufort Mark I at Luqa, Malta, in preparation for a sortie against the Italian naval force threatening the ‘HARPOON’ Convoy.
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Managed to Identify some of the B-17 bombers being attacked in this footage 91st BG near Leipzig on November 2nd 1944.
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Gloster Gladiator aircraft belonging to F 19, the Swedish volunteer corps in Finland, stands in a guard. Military at work on the wing of the aircraft. Rear view. 01/01/1940
22:06 UTC
A Curtiss P-40 taxis to takeoff in North Africa in 1943. It was part of the 64th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group.
15:31 UTC
Romanian fighter aircraft IAR-81C starting it's engine, ready to take off.
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Poster with French ace fighter pilot Pierre Clostermann
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Question about He 111s and Ju 87s used during the filming of the movies "Battle of Britain" and "Patton".
Due to the fact that a handful of Ju 87s and He 111s which weren't destroyed by German personnel to prevent capture by Allied troops fell into American and British, examples of the CASA 2.111 (the Spanish license-built version of the He 111) were used during the filming of the movies Battle of Britain and Patton to represent the He 111, as were a handful of Ju 87 dive bombers.
Are there any extant examples of the CASA 2.111 used to represent the He 111 during the filming of Battle of Britain and Patton? Also, were the Ju 87s used in the filming of Battle of Britain replicas or examples captured by British troops?
03:25 UTC
Ground crews of No.356 Squadron RAF based at the Brown's West Island, Cocos Islands, celebrate in front of one of their Consolidated Liberator Mark B VIs on hearing the news of the surrender of Japan. Aug 1945
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Aviators near the Macchi MC.200 "Saetta" fighter (probably from the 382nd Squadron (382ª Squadriglia) of the 21st Group, 21 Gruppo) of the Italian Air Force at the Stalino airfield 1942.
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German fighter Messerschmitt Bf.109G-2/R6 from the JG5 “Eismeer” (“Polar Sea”) squadron at a Finnish airfield. The underwing 20-mm MG 151/20 air cannons, characteristic of the Bf.109G-2/R6 modification, are visible. The aircraft in the photograph belongs to 6./JG5
17:48 UTC
Technicians and pilots of the 513th IAP play cards while on duty at an airfield in Czechoslovakia. Yak-9 fighters are in the background. Third from left is senior sergeant Alexander Ivanovich Stanislavsky (born 04/14/1925). Photo from the personal archive of Alexander Ivanovich Stanislavsky.
17:41 UTC
P-47 Thunderbolts from the 318th Fighter Group taking off from East Field on Saipan, Marianas Islands in October 1944
08:10 UTC
Luftwaffe pilots during a break between training flights with Messerschmitt Bf.109C and Messerschmitt Bf.109E fighters at the Werneuchen airfield. 1940
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P-51D Mustangs of the 457th Fighter Squadron, 506th Fighter Group which are assigned to the northern airfield located on Iwo Jima, seen taxiing to the runway during preparations for a combat mission over the Japanese Home Islands in 1945.
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An air gunner operates the early model of the twin Browning machine guns mounted in the tail section of a Consolidated Liberator Mark II, assigned to No. 159 Squadron RAF. This particular aircraft was stationed at Fayid, Egypt. Hard to tell if it was colorized. Color film did exist in the 1930's.
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