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Just imagine the fun you could have with german aircrew if it it was filled with helium;)

Hope he knows what button NOT to press!

42-8435 P-47D Thunderbolt PE-A, "Sandra Lee" 328Sqn-352FG, Capt. Earl. L. Abbott, probably at RAF Bodney.

Pilots and ground crew of No. 4 (Tactical Reconnaissance) Squadron RAAF beside a CAC Boomerang named `On the Job'. Nadzab, New Guinea. 5 October 1943

Just a bit of extra information, both US flyers are wearing RAF MK.VII (Stores Ref.22C/826) goggles with flip down sun shade. Many of these shades were removed by the user. Later in the war the lighter MK.VIII goggles were introduced without the shade.

There were 656 Mark V and Mark VIII Spitfires delivered to the RAAF during the war, here are some of them waiting to be scrapped at Oakey, Queensland.:(

US B-25D Mitchell bomber ‘Here’s Howe’ of the ‘Grim Reapers’ 3rd Bombardment Group, ‘Pair-O-Dice’ 90th Bombardment Squadron executing a low level attack on Japanese shipping, Rabaul, New Britain, Nov 2 1943

RAAF Spitfire Mk VIII A58-303 in may 1944

P-38 with a lot of .5 and 20mm tracer going down range.......... that's a pretty hot square meter down the other end of the range!

Another Polish Fighting Team photo from Wiki........ PFT Spitfire MK9 ZX6 Supermarine Spitfire Mark IXCs of the Polish Fighting Team (Skalski's Circus) attached to No. 145 Squadron RAF, run up their engines at Goubrine Airfield in Tunisia. In the foreground is EN315 'ZX-6', flown by the...

USS Timbailer AVP-54 with two USS Timbailer PBM-3D Martin Mariners.

Spitfire of 411 RCAF haveing it's D-day stripes painted on.............. shows how rough some of the stripes really were!

That's on his private scout car in the background......... this photo reminds me of Kelly's Heros for some reason!:D

This would be me or maybe one of you guys if we were WW2 GIs:) Although I'd really be in a hangar somewhere picking up Revi gunsights and control stick tops!:)

Dauntless dive bomber being armed for a training flight 1943