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I have 2, a January 1943 and a November 1943. The Jan'43 manual is early enough that the Specific Engine Flight Chart still references...

The weight isn’t surprising. Glued laminated Kraft paper has a density somewhere between 30lb-40lb/cf. the technology is still in use...

A photograph of interest to this thread, I am with Mssr. Roger Hugenin in Remy, France in 1998 with one of three known surviving paper...

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A drop tank fell in the forest of Rosheim (Alsace) near Molsheim during WW2, and is still there because a tree grew in it. It is not...

I just read a page dedicated to the "Causes of heavy bomber damage in 8th air force" for January to may 1944. We can read that 83,7 % of...

Posted here previously, US squadrons increased in numbers to the point that they had to "double up" on their identification letters...

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Thank you Wurger Regards

I have a report of an 8th Air Force raisd where a P-51 was lost - Cat "E". Does anyone know what this Cat "E" means ? Regards

End of mai 1944, for raids with targets in Germany, the Bomb Groups provided 12 bombers per Squadron, that is a total of 36 aircraft...

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When a B-17 was badly hit during a bomb raid, and had diffculties to follow her Combat Box, the pilot would drop the bombs in emergnecy...

UGLY was the early code for 8th AF; SOXO replaced it later. I'm not sure that station identification is possibly beyond that, so "UGLY...