WW2 Aviation Links (Add your links)

[MiTasol]

which in turn lead to this site Авиамузей

 

[SaparotRob]

I'm on my phone so the picture is small. At first glance, I thought the plane was part of a tent.

 

[fubar57]

The tent is also part of a tent

 

[MiTasol]

And the picture changes every few minutes

 

[SaparotRob]

Like, wow, man. Far out.

 

[ThomasP]

Ran across this website the other day. It has free downloadable digitized searchable volumes of the Aero Digest magazine from Mar'26 to Jun'37. I realize this is technically before WWII but so much of the later info involves the lead-up to the war that I think it appropriate for this thread?

"Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine"

Note that there is a large amount of info on civil and general aviation, along with a fair amount on military aviation - plus a lot on the technical and engineering side of things. Most of it is oriented toward the US aviation industry but there is some non-US stuff as well.

The publication ran from 1921 to 1956, so I am going to try and find the earlier and later issues as well. If I do I will post the links here.

Update

Apparently Aero Digest was originally published as the Aeronautical Digest from 1921-1924 or later.
The HathiTrust website has the following earlier issues at "Catalog Record: Aeronautical digest"
No.3 from 1922
All of the 1923 issues
No.1 & No.2 from 1924

You cannot download the entire pdfs as a whole from HathiTrust unless you are a member of one or another institution, but you can read the entire publication and download pages individually.

 

[ThomasP]

Updated the above post.

 

[MiTasol]

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You cannot download the entire pdfs as a whole from HathiTrust unless you are a member of one or another institution, but you can read the entire publication and download pages individually.

There is a program called Hathi Download Helper that allows you to download the whole document if it is open access. Hathi Download Helper

It is slow because there is a limit to how many seconds it can download before it must pause for a minute or so but it works fairly well. A minor downside is it downloads each page separately and then merges them into a single file but leaves all the separate single page files that you need to delete manually.

Apparently it can download multiple files at the same time as well - never knew that until now but never needed it anyway.

 

[fubar57]

Canadian Army Training Manuals WW2.... Training Manuals

 

[33k in the air]

Just came across this YouTube channel:

B-17 Flying Fortress

From the channel's 'About' section:

This is the YouTube Channel of my B-17 web site and database B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies

I am researching the history of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and sharing my results. My focus of research is to identify B-17s and crews lost in combat. Telling their untold stories. Source of the most of the pictures and footages is the US National Archive.

From watching several of its videos, it appears the channel does what it claims to do. Primary source documents (e.g. route maps, after-action reports, etc.) are shown onscreen. Most of the videos are about five minutes long, but some are longer.

 

[MiTasol]

"aviation" - Rare Historical Photos

rarehistoricalphotos.com

Examples of what is there

 

[MiTasol]

Changing the search item to airplane produces many more photos. I need to go eat or I would try other search terms

 

[MiTasol]

Just lucked on to this one. I have not looked any further at this stage but I thought others may find it of use.

Aviation and Aerospace Archives Initiative

http://www.aviationarchives.uk

ukaeroarchives.wordpress.com

 

[fubar57]

Just found out about this. This is the Hurricane, from the same site as the Spitfire site. Member Geoffrey Sinclair who provided invaluable assistance in creating the database. Thank you, sir

home

www.airhistory.org.uk

 

[Snautzer01]

LUFTWAFFE SIG HOME PAGE (Special Interest Group Luftwaffe in Norway)

Luftwaffe in Norway

Luftwaffe in Norway

www.luftwaffe.no

 

[MiTasol]

Farnborough Air Sciences Museum Archives

Archives - Farnborough Air Sciences Trust

Extensive archive of scientific, engineering, experimental and social artefacts and huge range of photographic, film and report archives.

airsciences.org.uk

 

[fubar57]

MiTasol 79 manuals here, most look interesting.... Browse Items · The Museum of Flight - Digital Collections

 

[MiTasol]

Agree. DC-1 manual was a real surprise as I thought there was only one of those aircraft built.

I downloaded the two riveting manuals as you never know what forgotten tricks such manuals show.

 

[MiTasol]

A kiwi contact sent me a link to these Spitfire sites that will probably interest many.

The Spitfire Makers Charitable Trust

Commemoration : Preservation : Education

spitfiremakers.org.uk

About

About the author

supermariners.wordpress.com

The Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory | WIAS

This paper briefly describes the history of the Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory and its significant contribution to aviation, particularly during the Second World War.

warwickshireias.org

THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The official website of the Battle of Britain Historical Society. An educational history of the Battle of Britain designed for the internet for use by students and scholars making a study of this period of our modern history.

www.battleofbritain1940.net

 

[fubar57]

This is my go-to site for WW2 operations code-names. 72 pages, about 100 operations per page...... Find operations | Operations & Codenames of WWII Contains a brief summary of each operation, just enough to whet the appetite for further research if wanted