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We LOVE Military Aviation: Fighters, Bombers, Helicopters, Tankers, Transports. From the First World War to today!

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Tom Hanks has teamed with war movie legend Dale Dye as Executive Producer on No Better Place to Die, a film that will detail the airborne assault on D-Day in the same hard-hitting fashion as Saving Private Ryan did for the beach landings in Normandy. https://t.co/lsF38VQQ2H

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P-51B "The Iowa Beaut" of the 354th Fighter Squadron during a flight over the English countryside by Lt Robert E Hulderman, 1944.

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A Hula Girl: These females symbolize a sailor’s time in Hawaii. This tattoo was trendy during World War II, when many servicemen were stationed there. https://t.co/DMciF4nscf

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A "patient" being prepared for transport during a drill, 1944. The aircraft is an F-5B Lightning fitted with two drop tanks modified for use in high speed med evacuation operations.

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From the radio operator’s position in a USMC PBJ Mitchell, Japanese POW 2Lt Minoru Wada looks for landmarks to find the Japanese 100th Infantry Division headquarters complex, 9 August 1945, Mindanao, Philippines.

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From the early FF1 to the ultra-reliable F-14 Tomcat, Grumman has consistently produced great planes for the best pilots in the world. https://t.co/WuoUMhPxID

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Many people believe that the only attack on the United States during WWII, was on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. https://t.co/uqXO5y8dqt

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prisoners.

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Being the first of its kind, Dachau concentration camp served as an example for all future camps. In its first year, the camp processed close to 4,800 people. At first the inmates consisted of German Communists, trade union members, and other political https://t.co/PaVQQdBt42

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prisoners

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What the Soviets lacked was a strategic bomber force. They saw first hand the damage done to German cities by the air forces of Britain and the United States and realized that they were far behind in the development of modern heavy bombers. https://t.co/Se7wmdGKsj

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Still from film shot by a Hawker Typhoon of No. 181 Squadron RAF while attacking trucks in railways sidings at Nordhorn, Germany, showing a salvo of 60-lb rocket projectiles heading for the target

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had.

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The Supermarine Spitfire designed by Reginald Joseph Mitchell, a British aeronautical engineer, was one of the best fighters during WWII. Invaluable in the Battle of Britain against German Messerschmidts, those that flew them raved about them and those https://t.co/9y7zLqCqnR

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who never had a chance to fly them, wish they

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built.

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About three years ago, the tower began its transformation to a four-story, single-family home. It is now on the market for £1.25 million. The house sits on 1.2 acres of garden grounds and includes a detached double or triple garage that has yet to be https://t.co/oLVPm58S9h

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built

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American ground crew preparing to arm P-51 Mustang fighter at an airfield with six M2 machine guns and 0.50 caliber ammunition.

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Christmas.

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Early in the morning on September 17th, 1944, Operation Market Garden is about to begin. In Southern England, the airfields are a beehive of activity, airplanes, and gilders are being made ready and paratroopers are about to board the C-47 Dakota’s that https://t.co/n7sgnPUfEd

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will take them to the Netherlands to capture the bridges and help end the war by