Hi 5shot56
I found it:
Wells Wescott Crew of the 467th BG (H) on a cold January crew photo day at Wendover AAB, Utah-Nevada border. Both crews are off to Rackheath, Station 145, England in February, and the rest they say is history.
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Tom
Hi 5shot56
Your photo is of a typical Second AF stateside trainer. The number on the side is probably 1156, by the looks of it newly transferred to this base by the masking tape still left on by the ground crews. With these last 4 digits Joe Baugher list serial numbers: 42-41138 ... 42-41172...
Hi skipperbob
I think the field is probably Galveston AAFld. TX a Second AF P-47 training base and with a gunnery range over the Gulf of Mexico. The lay of the flight-line, looks to me, to match this photo, taken atop of the hanger, with the aircraft facing South and the cantonment area to...
Hi Ethos,
The B-29 flight line and in flight pictures have the unique large and bold double digit numbers of the Alamogordo AAFld, a Second AF B-29 replacement crew training base. The C-46 and B-25 are probably transit aircraft at the same base.
The black belly B-29s look worn and has the...
Hi All,
Found a color picture of 41-25026 ship 41 probably of the 59th PS/33rd PG which was a I Interceptor Command unit operating out of G.L. Martin Aprt, Md., and then Philadelphia, Pa. for most of 1942. The 33rd FG was then part of the North African invasion in November 1942.
It looks...
Hi samjkramer
Most of the photos are taken at LaGuardia, airport NYC, the private civilian aircraft probably are also at LaGuardia by look of all that concrete.
I don’t know where the navy aircraft are but by the red and white water tower in the background they are at some U.S. training...