/r/WWIIplanes
Discussion and photos relating to WWII aviation.
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"My Gal Sal." This photo was taken by me during my last visit to New Orleans. A Boeing built B-17E, she is one of only 4 E models left in existence.
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My Great-Grandfather on a War Bonds tour after completing 25 missions in a B-17F, circa 1943
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A Japanese phosphorus shell bursts above a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber of the U.S. Seventh Air Force after it unloaded its bomb over Iwo Jima, 1945.
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Podcast review of “Flying Leathernecks”
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I don’t know if this has been posted here before, but this is Wee Willie in her desth throes. 9 men still aboard. Chilling to me.
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Posing with Flak Damage: B-24 Wild Honey, 42-52682, Blair Crew, 28 February 1945 – over Iscaro-Albes River Bridge
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B-24 burning over Vienna, Austria .June 16, 1944
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Kawasaki Ki-61 - Japan's only mass-produced inline engine fighter of the war. Around 3000 were built for the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Two WW2-era official Allied photos of a captured Dornier Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow). These are original phot prints I found online more than twenty years ago.
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42-73244 Lakanooki crew
I have added a photo of this crew while training in Wyoming. The "lakanooki" photo had the last four on the top row as unknown.Comparing other photos I believe I have three of those identified(left a question mark by their names). The "Lakanooki" crew are kneeling L to R: Cpl. Harry C. Kantianis (nose gun), F/O Edward H. Jablonski (nav.), Sgt. James W. Andrus (top turret), Cpl. Carmelo A. Travalin (Eng.), Cpl. Lester Sheahon (armore), Standing L to R:Cpl. Alfred W. Maner (tail gun), Cpl. Charles A. McAnarney (radio), ?unknown?, (?)Lt. Stanley Bright (co-pilot), (?) Lt. James Allison (Bombadier), (?) Lt. Donald Zwiep (pilot) Wyoming Photo: Standing L to R: Travalin, Sheahon, Andrus, Maner, McAnarney, Kantianis. Kneeling L to r:Allison, Zwiep, Bright, Jablonski
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Dornier Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow)
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Beechcraft XA-38 Grizzly ground attack aircraft
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Luftwaffe technicians pose for a picture showing battle damage on the wing of the Junkers Ju.87 dive bomber
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A-20C Havoc being serviced at Langley Field, Virginia, United States, July 1942.
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Fork-Tailed Devils: WWII's Twin-Boom Airplanes and Beyond [VIDEO]
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P-47s of the 365th Fighter Group in color - April-May 1945
A look at the 365th Fighter Group in April 1945. This was their last station at Fritzlar, Germany. Still in use were razorback P-47s sporting olive drab paint alongside the bare aluminum bubble tops.
Several P-47s are fitted with a 75 gallon drop tank, this is probably an escort mission for medium bombers in the Ninth Air Force.
2:00 shows a pilot climbing into his P-47, a great shot of this handle assist for getting onto the wing.
2:19 we can see that the Jug has a Mk.8 gunsight. (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
Most of everything in here is taxiing, takeoff, flyovers, and landings. Good shots of what an Advanced Landing Ground (forward airfield) would look like by this point in the war. Destroyed Luftwaffe buildings, equipment, and aircraft seen all over. Pilots are driven out to their P-47s via a captured staff car and one officer is seen using a Nazi flag to wave at the Thunderbolts for takeoff.
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Pilot use the wing to escape his burning Hellcat after landing aboard the USS Lexington, 1945
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Dauntless SBD dive bomber of the USS Yorktown ready to drop its 1000 pound bomb on Japanese-held Wake Island, October 6, 1943.
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Hawker Typhoon
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Is there a picture of my great uncle’s WWII bomber? (MIA)
My great uncle George E. High and the entire flight crew went MIA on the following mission, and I was wondering if there was a picture of his plane. Here are the last flight details. Thanks.
On August 30, 1944 he was on the crew of the North American B-25D Mitchell #41-30604 during a weather reconnaissance mission when they were reported missing in the area of Papua New Guinea. They were officially declared dead on February 22, 1946.
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B-26B Marauder "Mary V" flying low over the English countryside while returning from a mission, March, 1943
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Firefighters are extinguishing a fire on a bomber in England. 1944
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Unsuccessful launch of Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber from the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga, July 4, 1944.
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