/r/WWIIplanes
A place to share anything about anything flying in the last great war.
Welcome to r/WWIIplanes.
Most anything goes here as long as it's related to the subject of WWII aircraft. Videos and schematics of actual planes, to models, engines, weapons, paint schemes, sound effects, video games, history, pictures, stories...if it involves flight in WWII it's fair game
Things aren't too serious around here, just don't be a douche. There will be pictures of swastikas.
Apart from that: have fun , be interesting, submit content and spread the word about this subreddit if you know anyone who likes the subject.
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RAF Hawker Typhoon Mk IB of No. 486 (NZ) Squadron in flight, October 1943.
08:25 UTC
A group of American pilots of the 379th Fighter Squadron U.S. Air Force captured German Messerschmitt night fighter BF.110 G-4/R3. Lt. Robert Hagen (Robert S. Hagen) tells his comrades about the last air battle. Germany, May 1945.
07:18 UTC
Flight deck crewmen conduct final checks on an FM before it launches from USS Anzio (CVE-57) for close air support mission over Okinawa in April 1945
05:33 UTC
Finnish Air Force Gloster Gladiator II just before takeoff in Joensuu, Finland. 02/07/1941
02:39 UTC
The crew of De Havilland Mosquito Mark II, DZ757 'RA-Q', of No. 410 Squadron RCAF, Flight Lieutenant M A Cybulski RCAF (pilot, left) and Flying Officer H H Ladbrook (navigator), stand by their fire-damaged aircraft at Coleby Grange, Lincolnshire, after destroying a Dornier Do 217
02:08 UTC
Squadron Leader J M Bryan, Commanding Officer of No. 198 Squadron RAF, inspects the damaged starboard wing of his Hawker Typhoon Mark IB, JR366, at Manston, Kent, after returning from a 'Roadstead' mission involving an attack on three flak ships off the Dutch islands.
02:02 UTC
Aerial view showing Japanese fighters lined up at an airfield on the island of Formosa as seen from a U.S. Navy Consilidated PB4Y-1 Liberator aircraft from Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-104. The squadron operated from Clark Field, Luzon (Philippines), from March to October 1945.
01:56 UTC
Junkers Ju 88G6, 1.NJG6 (Jagdgeschwader 6), code in fuselage 2Z+FH, serial number 620987 abandoned in Schleissheim, Germany, 1945.
01:46 UTC
In this photo, the necessary bombs have been removed from their transporting crates and the armorers have stripped off their white summer fatigue uniforms in order to bomb up the Heinkel in the hot early autumn sun.
01:44 UTC
Inside the cockpit of a Heinkel He 111F-4 bomber. Notice the rather cramped conditions inside the F-4
01:41 UTC
A big He 111Z composite aircraft starts to warm up her five engines on this icy Russian airfield. Already the first, third and fifth engines are slowly turning over. Equally visible are the belly drop tanks, similar to those carried by Bf 110s
01:39 UTC
Messerschmitt Bf 109G2. RRAF of 7FG. Yellow 1, White H. Romania 1942
00:50 UTC
The crew of the A-20B "Boston" 3rd Squadron of the Soviet 8th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment 221st Bomber Air Division
00:32 UTC
Military cameraman of the Central Newsreel Studio David Grigoryevich Sholomovich (09/11/1914 - 08/27/1965) is filming the German fighter Messerschmitt Bf.109, which had landed earlier in an emergency landing. For visual effect, a smoke bomb is thrown under the plane.
00:27 UTC
Messerschmitt Bf.109E-7 and Bf.108 of 7th Grupul Escadrila 57 Bucharest Romania
23:54 UTC
Damaged by flak Supermarine 349 Spitfire Vb/Trop, serial number ER120, code VF-D of the 5th Fighter Squadron 52nd FG, north Africa in April 1943.
According the caption this aircraft as damaged by flak but returned to its base. It shows singns of a belly landing. The caption says it was repaired. ER120 crashed in Tunisia due to flak damage in April 1943. The photo is captioned north África. Some sources say Tunisia but at the time of the photo the unit was base in Algeria. Photo from: National Archives of College Park, Maryland.
23:18 UTC
A battle damaged Heinkel He 111 belly landed back in France, Battle of Britain, 1940.
22:10 UTC
Remains Junkers Ju 88S l.KG77 (Kampfgeschwader 77) B in Russia, 1943
21:53 UTC
Short film showing a demonstration flight of the German Focke Wulf FW 61 helicopter
20:52 UTC
Ju88, Wnr.333, 4D+AD of Stab III./KG30. Pagham Harbour, Sussex, 9 September 1940
19:11 UTC