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1. Staffel JG 27 ace Oberfeldwebel Albert Espenlaub was forced down behind Allied lines when his aircraft's cooling system was damaged in combat with a Hawker Hurricane. Fellow pilot Oblt. Hugo Schneider described what happened in the following letter addressed to Espenlaub family dated January...

USAAF pilot keeps his finger on the trigger as a Luftwaffe fighter crash lands in 1944 to the detriment of a local barn

Poulton was shot down in 122 Squadron Spitfire Mk Vb BM241 over Pihen-lès-Guînes in combat with Focke-Wulf Fw 190s of Jagdgeschwader 26 on May 1st 1942 while on a bomber escort mission and appears to have suffered an eye inury during the incident. He remained a prisoner of war for three years...

Luftwaffe Bf 109 F pilot displays very little concern for ammunition economy while dogfighting with RAF Hurricanes over France in 1942

The aircraft are fitted with various heavy weapon kits including a pair of MG 151/20 20mm or a single BK 3.7 37mm cannon in a ventral gondola as well as Werfer-Granate 21 rocket tubes under the wings. While the weapons were effective in breaking up US bomber formations and targeting bombers from...

Demonstration of the WWI SPAD S.XII main armament consisting of a manually-loaded 37mm SAMC cannon mounted between the cylinder banks of the Hispano-Suiza 8BeC V8 engine and firing through the hollow propeller shaft. The spent casings were ejected automatically. The SPAD XII was inspired by...

F/O J. Butler in a No. 65 Squadron Mustang Mk III attacks a II/JG26 Focke-Wulf Fw 190D moments too late to protect one of seven Lancaster bomber lost during a daylight raid on the Gremberg Marshalling Yards in Cologne on December 23rd 1944 Lancaster losses during the raid: 35 Sqn PB678/F and...

90th Bombardment Squadron B-25 Mitchell crewman displays the remains of his M1911A1 pistol that saved his life after it took the impact from a 20mm cannon shell likely from a Japanese fighter during a raid on Finschafen on September 24th 1943

Rare piece of Regia Aeronautica gun camera showing Allied vehicles being strafed in North Africa

Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109 pilot continues to shoot at a Desert Air Force Curtiss Tomahawk as it crash lands in North Africa circa late 1941

Looking back at my notes I do actually have a date, it appears this was filmed in March 1947 so this is likely connected to the official renaming of the vessel, apparently the mayor of Arromanches was one of the dignitaries on board when it was filmed.

VVS Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik rear gunner returns fire in an ultimately futile attempt to fend off attacks from a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 110 flying low over the Eastern Front in 1943

Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 caught on the ground with engines running at a French airfield by a USAAF fighter in 1944

I don't think it could be a G5N, the wing position, dihedral and aspect ratio does not seem to match