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Discussion and photos relating to WWII aviation.
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Meet Margie #42-95221. She was originally named Ready N' Able. This comely lass has three extra antenna on her underside starboard wing for the VHF Orville jammers, six of which she carried for the 36th Bomb Squadron. The Orville jammer was a SCR-522 radio modified to produce modulated noise.
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B-17 42-30149 / "Spare Parts" In flight over bremen after bombing a Focke Wulf aircraft factory at Marienburg Danzig 9th Oct 1943
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Messerschmitt Bf 109F, code I+8, unit lll./JG 26 (Jagdgeschwader 26) white 8, landing mishap.
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Remains Focke-Wulf Fw F-3
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A captured Japanese Kawasaki Ki-108 in a hangar. 1945
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[Meta] Colorized, Upscaled, and Otherwise Modified images now require tagging and watermarks.
As discussed in the previous thread.
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Help Finding a Scrapped Fighter Plane
Hello Reddit, my name is Tanner, and I’m a member a small high school band in Texas. For our competition show next year, we are forming a World War II plane show. In order to pull this off, we were looking into using an actual plane as a prop for the show. We were think something similar to a P 51 or any other fighter plane. If any of you happen to know a boneyard that’s willing to either give or sell us one for cheap, that would be amazing. The plane doesn’t need to run or be fully together. If we have the parts, we can put it back together. We’re basically just looking for a shell of a plane. Anything that you are willing to offer would be amazing.
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This Heinkel He 111H-1 of 1./KG 26 was intercepted by RAF fighters near the Firth of Forth on February 10, 1940 and shot down at Dalkeith, Scotland. The aircraft was later flown by the RAE and given the RAF serial number AW177.
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We were on the brink of death!" - a pilot from the KG27 squadron demonstrates a hole in the fuselage of his Heinkel, resulting from an anti-aircraft shell hit over Sevastopol, December 1941.
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A Heinkel He 111 is raked by eight 0-303in Brownings. This still was taken from a 16mm camera-gun film shot by either a Hurricane or Spitfire.
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2000-pound bombs are hoisted off a truck to be loaded in the yawning bomb bay of one of the 8th US, Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress that joined in the great invasion air fleet of June 6, 1944.
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28th April 1943: US airmen attached to the mobile unit of the 8th Air Force work on a Flying Fortress, on the site where it made a forced landing.
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Crew Chief Staff Sgt. Gerald Bentley inspects the oil lines on a North American P-51 fighter plane at an 8th Air Force base somewhere in England, mid-1940s. Underneath is assistant maintenance chief Technical Sargeant Paul Fick, who is checking the hydraulic pump.
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1st Lt. George H. Heilig waves and gives the okay sign from the cockpit of the "General Ike", a B-17 Flying Fortress from the 401st Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 1st Air Division, 8th Air Force, England
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Havoc Mark I (Turbinlite), AW400, on the ground at Burtonwood Repair Depot, Lancashire. This aircraft served with Nos. 1422 and 1454 (Turbinlite) Flights, and with 1459 (Turbinlite) Flight/No. 538 Squadron RAF, before transfer to the USAAF in April 1943.
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Fairchild 91, HK832 'M' of the Sea Rescue Flight, on an airfield in Egypt.
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Mitchell Mark II, FV914 VO-A, of No. 98 Squadron RAF based at Dunsfold, Surrey, unloading its bomb load over a flying-bomb launching site in northern France, during a 'Noball' operation.
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Doolittle Raid on Japan. B-25s aboard the USS Hornet (CV-8). USS Nashville (CL-43)can be seen in the distance. April 1942 [1500X1107]
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One Hundred Years A Hero. From The Doolittle Raid To The Air Commandos: Richard Cole [VIDEO]
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Messerschmitt Bf 109F of the 3rd Fighter Group of Fighter Squadron JG51 (Jagdgeschwader 51) destroyed at Dugino, Soviet Union in 1942 due to an attack by soviet aircraft. In the foreground near the plane lies a corse.
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Consolidated B-24 Liberator of 780th BS, 465th BG which crash landed in a dense fog near Poltava Airbase in Ukraine, January 1945
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Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil", 1945
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Hans-Joachim Marseille posed next to a downned Hawker Hurricane in North Africa in Mach 1942.
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PZL 23 Karás shot down in Poland in 1939
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SNJ-4 Texan on the ramp at Moffett Field, California, USA, 1944.
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IJN Kyushu J7W Shinden fighter prototype being inspected by US officers after the surrender of Japan, 1945.
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