/r/WWIIplanes
Discussion and photos relating to WWII aviation.
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Insanely huge Japanese "concept" bomber ! I doubt if anybody really thought......
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Showa/Nakajima L2D or C 47? Japan's most used transport aircraft.
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BF 109 evaluation aircraft on loan from the Luftwaffe. They didn't buy it.
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Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J16050, Flugzeuge Junkers Ju 87.
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Nine Douglas SBD-2 Dauntless scout bombers, of Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) fly in formation.
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The Grumman F7F Tigercat (XF7F-1) was the first twin-engine fighter to enter service with the US Navy. First flew 2 November 1943
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses vs German flak over Merseburg
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An autographed picture of Ace pilot Richard Bong and his P-38 Lightning "Marge"
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A P-59B Airacomet (serial number 44-22609) in flight with a P-63 serving as an escort.
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A very cold Hurricane, the old RAF roundels are still slightly visible under the Red Star
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Hart’s War P-51’s
Does anyone know which two P-51’s were used in the train strafing scene in Hart’s War?
18:22 UTC
From a post I made on r/B29Superfortress
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Hawker Tornado Prototype
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Armorers clean the barrel of the 20mm MG FF cannon in the port wing of a Seeaufklärungsgruppe 126 Arado 196 floatplane in Greece in 1943
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Six .50-cal. machine guns protrude from the glazed nose of this B-25 serving with the 490th Bomb Squadron in China during 1944.
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Supermarine Spitfire Mk V awaiting repair in North Africa in the Summer of 1943
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Ilyushin Il-2 bearing an inscription of the Kubishyev chapter of the "Komsomol" All-Union Leninist Young Communist League shot down over the Eastern Front
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In 1944, A. Kartveli, chief designer of the P-47 Thunderbolt began designs to turn it into a jet powered fighter taking advantage of the large fuselage of the P-47. The Jug proved to be too large in fact in its cross section so, Kartveli designed a thinner body that would become the F-84 Thunderjet.
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Hawker Hurricane The Workhorse of The RAF
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A Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 V1 Drache (D-OCEB) was flown to a record height of 23,294 ft on 28 October 1940
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Dornier Do 335A-12 'Pfiel' (Arrow) captured by the USAAF and being examined by American service personel at Oberpfaffenhofen, before it was transferred to the RAF and flown to England by Sqn Leader McCarthy. Just when you thought a P-47 was big ;)
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Captured Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. The P-47 was lost on a ferry mission when the pilot, 2nd Leutenant Lloyd Hathcock, flew the correct distance but 180 degrees in the wrong direction; landing at Rome-Littorio on 29 May 1944, before the area had been captured by the Allies
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