World War Aviation

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Strategic Air Command, Carswell Air Force Base, Texas. Airmen wearing N-3B parkas and oxygen masks. 1951

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B-17 waist gunner inspects his .50cal BMG. Analysis shows that waist gunners often had the most injuries/fatalities due to its position on the aircraft and lack of protection.

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P-47D "Black Jack" of the 405th FS.

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An A-10 from the Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing is painted with a heritage WWII paint scheme at the Air National Guard paint facility in Sioux City, Iowa. The paint scheme is designed to replicate the look of the original P-47 Thunderbolt as it appeared during WW2

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Curtiss P-40C Warhawk/41-13429. Which Crashed in the snow At 2nd Service Group Airfield Somewhere In Iceland. February 6, 1943.

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Captured by the Americans, this Italian Bf-109G-6 bares it's insignia “Diavolo Rosso” (Red Devil), emblem of Italian Regia Aeronautica’s 3rd Gruppo Caccia Terrestre (Land Fighter Group)

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B-17F "Little Audrey" flying with other aircraft of the 306th Group based at Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, May or Jun 1943."

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Without Rolls Royce, WW2 may have been very different for the allies.

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RAF Barracuda torpedo bomber. July 1944.

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PBJ-1D on USS Manila Bay 1944.

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WW2 RAF Fighter Pilot flight gear.

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A War weary P-40E in flight during WW2

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Robert L. Brown and ship's mascot Scrappy aboard aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), circa December 1943

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Pilot F/O Bohuslav Kimlicka with the squadron mascot on the wing of his Hurricane.

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Built by Ford, a B-24J "Arise and come with me"

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In the cockpit of an I-16 fighter a pilot of the 61st Fighter Aviation Brigade of the Baltic Fleet Air Force, Junior Lieutenant Viktor Pavlovich Sigolaev looks through the PAK-1 sight.

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The Hawker Hurricane accounted for more than half of all enemy aircraft shot down during the Battle of Britain. It truly was the backbone of the RAF during this period.

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B-17 Flying Fortress "Sleepy Time Gal" being towed to the United States Air Force museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio

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1945. Gloster Meteor Mk III of No. 616 Squadron RAF being serviced at Melsbroek, Belgium.

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P-51B Mustang "Z HUB" from 354th FG, 355th FS. This aircraft was flown by 1 Lieutenant Eldon E. Posey and made an emergency landing at Rinkeby Sweden on 13 May 1944 due to fuel shortage. It later became 26001 in the Swedish Air Force.