/r/WWIIplanes
Discussion and photos relating to WWII aviation.
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Preserved Consolidated PBY Catalina (also me taking off for holidays the next 3 weeks)
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2024/07/18
09:12 UTC
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The Airspeed AS.51 Horsa military glider was built by civilian workers of the furniture company Harris and Austin Cars in 1944 [1500X1017]
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2024/07/18
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Half of the flying lacasters
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2024/07/17
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A very interesting, never seen before interview with German engineer Hans Von Ohain, and his take on the invention of the turbojet. Part 2 [VIDEO]
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2024/07/17
20:46 UTC
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Disclaimer
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2024/07/17
18:35 UTC
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Heinkel towing a Natter. A VERY experienced pilot (Erich Klöckner 1913-2003) made four unpowered flights and reported that the machine flew well.
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2024/07/17
15:48 UTC
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A sleepy little Arado Ar 196 wings folded and tucked in aboard Tirpitz.
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2024/07/17
15:17 UTC
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A grim task, a squadron adjutant of the USAAF 91st Bomb Group at RAF Bassingbourn clears the quarters of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crew who failed to return from their last mission.
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2024/07/17
07:49 UTC
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Crew of the 353rd FG Poses With War Weary P-51B With Malcolm Hood Serial 43-12433 1944
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2024/07/17
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Tempest Mk. III – Prototype LA610
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2024/07/17
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Republic P-47D-22-RE Thunderbolt (S/N 42-25706) equipped with a Malcom Hood Canopy
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2024/07/17
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Leading Aircraftman Rogers (furthest right) and his groundcrew colleagues stand beside Hawker Audax I K7429, some time before he probably he I I K7429, he probably has Ine 263 Sqn, which re-formed at Filton on October 2, 1939, as a fighter squadron equipped with Gloster Gladiators.
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2024/07/17
04:28 UTC
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The 616th Squadron's 616th Squadron's on-call is preparing to take off from Kenny's airfield. Look at the "QJ" letters. For several months, the 616th squadron was mistakenly labeled these letters, although they were already used by the 92nd. This confusion of the war is still misleading historians.
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2024/07/17
04:16 UTC
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An unknown serviceman poseds beside Spitfire VB/Trop WZ-X of the 309th FS, which bears the name Beverly the second alongside insignia in designing a running skeleton and the legend. The 309th traded its Spitfires for the longer-range Mustang in March - April early 1944.
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2024/07/17
03:46 UTC
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Lt Berry Chandler of the 309th FS, 31st FG, was credited with damaging a Bf 109 of JG 77 during the last?s attack on Thelepte No. 1 on February 15.
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2024/07/16
22:55 UTC
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JG 2 had arrived in North Africa in mid-November 1942, and by February based at Kairouan in facilities, facilities and protective revetments were somewhat. As a result, the unit suffered a number of losses on the ground during the USAAF bombing raids during the afternoon of February 15.
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2024/07/16
22:54 UTC
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A Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2 of I./JG 77 at Gabes airfield in Tunisia in 1943. Jagdgeschwader 77 served in all German theatres of operation during Second World War, from Western Europe to the Eastern Front, from Norway in the north to the Mediterranean and North Africa in the south.
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2024/07/16
22:53 UTC
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The Bell P-39 equipped the 81st and 350th FGs and two squadrons of the 68th Observation Group in North Africa from the end of 1942. Interestingly, the dark circle just aft of the bottom of the cockpit door reveals that this example, is actually a P-400, the circle being a dark formation light only t
8 Comments
2024/07/16
22:46 UTC
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Supermarine Seafire F Mk III
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2024/07/16
08:59 UTC
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PBM-3S Mariner aircraft of US Navy patrol squadron VP-214 at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 1944
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2024/07/16
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Loading ammunition for the Hudson's dorsal turret, which was of Boulton Paul type, with twin 0-303in machine guns. The camera is looking aft.
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2024/07/16
05:45 UTC
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Pilots of 3/LLv 24 of the Finnish Air Force are studying the map from the Brewster B-239 fighter (export version of the American F2A-1) at the airfield in the area of Rantasalmi. In the center stands with a map of Lieutenant Jorma Karhunen . To the left of him the ensign Ilmari Juutilainen . In the
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2024/07/16
00:16 UTC
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Groundcrew help to zip the parachute to the pilot in the cockpit of a Macchi MC.200 -Saetta from the Regia Aeronautica 382a Squadriglia,21 Gruppo. before a flight from the airfield of Stalino . 1942
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2024/07/16
00:13 UTC
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A Soviet I-16, after a forced landing, on it's belly. The photo was taken by German soldiers, one of them next to the plane. There is no information about the place and date of the shooting.
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2024/07/15
22:58 UTC
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Messerschmitt Fighter Bf-109F-2 Trop (W.Nr. 8477) Albert Espenlaub Ober-feldfebel of 1 squadron 27 Fighter Regiment (Oberfeldwebel Albert Espenlaub of 1. Staffel JG27).
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2024/07/15
22:49 UTC
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80-G-328344: USS Yorktown (CV-10), March 18, 1945. Kamikaze plane, Yokosuka D4Y “Judy” dive bomber about to attack the aircraft carrier. Photographed by PHOM 2/C W.R. Phillips and LT William J. Dunn, Jr. US Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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2024/07/15
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