[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Blue Streak, original HALPRO ship 41-11613, 376th BG, 514th BS, originally named FLORENE JU JU, the TEGGIE ANN, then BLUE STREAK
Gunners would tie crew chutes to the waist gun mounts and manually eject and open them on hydraulic failures. [ATTACH]
The top aircraft is Thunder Mug 42-40246. All 4 aircraft were survivors of the August 1,1943 Operation TIDAL WAVE mission to Ploesti. Joisey...
Since you said produced my vote is the F8F Bearcat (as long as we keep the kerosene burners out of it). [ATTACH]
I did not find an aircraft accident report for 24 October 1944 that would apply. To find the cause of death you should order his Individual...
[ATTACH] CR-42 in slightly worse condition, 1943.
Every gunner was by no means firing at every fighter. Gunners were taught to fire only at fighters turning directly at their aircraft. The...
[ATTACH] P-47 "Sonny Boy", 318th FG, launches from the USS Manilla Bay bound for Saipan, 23 June 1944
[ATTACH] 464th BG B-24 "Mickey Ship" trailing a pilot's glory below it.
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[ATTACH] Beaufighter with Vickers Wellington, Grottaglie, Italy, 1944. Spitfire in background.
I have no issue with twerking dancers as a general rule, but it doesn't seem to lend much to what should be a dignified ceremony commissioning a...
Both “The Cutlass could be made into a pretty good flying machine with a few modifications,” wrote F7U-3 pilot John Moore in The Wrong Stuff,...
[MEDIA] HMAS Supply commissioning...
It's good he could smile sitting in a Gutless Cutlass:cool:
[ATTACH] Shirley Jean, 42-95397, 101 missions [ATTACH]
And TBF Avengers - a mixed deck load
Aircraft in the photo is s/n 42-104827, P-40N-1-CU assigned to the RAAF as A29-414. On April 25, 1944 it suffered a landing accident and was...
Many restored fighters put a jump seat where the original (large) radio equipment used to reside.
B-17's were in the Pacific through 1943. By the end of December they had all been withdrawn and sent to Europe. They reached their peak in the...
