[ATTACH] [ATTACH] "My Achin' Back", 41-29432, made an emergency landing on the beach near Loreta, Italy on 12 September 1944 with Mason's crew...
[ATTACH] 15th AF, 1st FG, 27th FS, Italy
[ATTACH] B-24H assembly line at Willow Run
[ATTACH] 325th Fighter Group P-51
[ATTACH] Spitfire of 7 Squadron, South African Air Force on the ground at Grottaglie, Italy
The dorsal fin modification was to correct yaw instability caused by airflow over the bubble canopy, not a strength issue, and was a factory mod
[ATTACH] 44-49826, 719th Squadron [ATTACH] 42-51122, 717th Squadron A couple of B-24 "Mickey Ships", 449th Bomb Group
[ATTACH] "Italy - Historic meeting at Vesuvius: crusty old jet looks down on bright new jets during Lockheed P-80's visit to Italy."
It's a "Mickey Ship", that's a radome in the place of the ball turret.
[ATTACH] Clark Gable after his 5th Mission, with Lt. Col. Robert Burns [ATTACH] Clark Gable with public relations officer William Smith
[ATTACH] 92 Squadron Spitfire, Grottaglie, Italy 1944
[ATTACH] RAF Vultee Vengeance, Grottaglie, Italy, 1944
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Leroy Grumman is reported to have said of the FW-190 something to the effect of 'if we put an R-2800 in that airframe we'd have a world beater'....
[ATTACH] P-51's as seen from a B-24 waist window.
[ATTACH] B-24 "Knock Down Kit". Willow Run produced 1893 of these kits that were assembled into finished aircraft at Douglas, Tulsa and...
451st Bomb Group leaving Ploesti 31 May 1944. The lead aircraft is CON JOB, 42-78145 flown by the Hubert Anderson crew.
[ATTACH] 15th AF B-24s over Austria
[ATTACH] "Sweeet Mother", 41-29309; 449th BG, 719th BS. Takeoff accident 4 May 1944, gear lever raised before aircraft was airborne causing...
