I am looking for information about two P-39 Q that were lost in Switzerland short after WWII has ended. These two Airacobras were flying along the river Rhein on a low level flight on 16. July 1945 (cloudy, bad weather) from (probably) Basel towards the lake of Constance. Near Eglisau they...
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USMC photographer David Douglas Duncan rode in this converted drop tank on two occasions. June 13 and June 15, 1945 to photograph USMC Corsairs attacking Japanese position on Okinawa.
The pilot is Major Ed h. Taylor, commnder, 28th Photo-Recon Squadron and the plane is a...
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In January 1945, the exclusion mandate under Executive Order 9066 was rescinded and Japanese American internees were allowed to return to the West Coast.
After a...
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Caption Original Snapshot Photo GI in Cockpit CRASHED GERMAN AIRCRAFT Germany 1945
I thinks it a soviet plane
Messerschmitt Me163B-1a, WNr.191659, Yellow 15 of JG400 was at the RAE in 1945 and became AM215. Currently on display at the Royal Scottish Museum of Flight at East Fortune
If I would like to know which units (Allied or German) with single engined aircraft were active over this region, west Brabant, south of Rotterdam, where would one start? Is it even doable?
Timeframe is november 1944, december 1944, januari 1945.
A captured Heinkel He 111. Subsequent to the German surrender in May 1945, this aircraft was allocated to the 56th Fighter Group,United States Eighth Air Force. Handwritten on slide:"56 Fg He 111 wa BattistaLt. Allbright 11" Printed on slide: "SEPT 1997 05"
On August 29, 1945, an American B-29 pilot on a POW supply mission over northern Korea, refused to land on a Soviet-controlled runway, claiming it was "too short."
When he, instead, flew his B-29 (called the Hog Wild) out to sea, two Russian Yaks pursued him out to sea and fired at the...