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Have some pictures that you guys might find interesting.
 

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A B-25 pitching up after skip-bombing a Japanese ship. This was taken a second after the bomb hit the ship, a mere second before the payload went off on the deck.
 

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Filename is pretty self-explanatory. A Japanese D3A dive-bomber that crash landed upside-down at Guam after being damaged from an Allied aircraft.
 

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Feel free to post anything of pristine quality, I've still got some more.

A ground crew member rushes to the cockpit of a burning F6F Hellcat as others look on.
 

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A beautiful F6F-5N sits on the deck of an unidentified carrier while the engine runs.
 

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A German pilot jumps from his FW-190 (A-model, probably) somewhere over Western Europe.
 

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A B-26 "Marauder" has its left wing consumed in flames as it rolls in a death spiral.
 

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A FW-190 rolls to the left in an evasive maneuver. The fate of the pilot is unknown, but I wouldn't think he got too far, considering this is from a gun camera.
 

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I found some more you guys might like.

3 B-17E/L bombers are escorted by what I assume are 4 P-51(D-model I would also assume.) fighters somewhere over Western Europe.
 

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Most certainly, Robert, especially considering the Fortress was not pressurized.

A couple of P-40E fighters sit on the runway as a B-24 flies overhead and a crew member waves, somewhere in the Pacific theatre.
 

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A B-17 rolls as the right wing, which is engulfed in flames, folds over the top of the bomber.
 

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All well-known pics, but good stuff.
The aircraft in Post #13 are B-17F models (in a cropped version of the original print), and the fighter escort are more likely to be P-47's.
 
Thank you for the clarification, Airframes. I was having some trouble identifying the escorts, mainly due to the cowling and the cockpit area and how it transitions into the empennage (The way it curves downwards), my first guess was that they were some Navy fighters, probably F8Fs or F6Fs, but the roundels on the Boeings are definitely not USN roundels, so my next best guess was P-51s or P-47s.

A B-26 "Marauder" crew stand in front of their bomber, christened "Ginger" (Or "Singer"), and chat while another crew member makes his way from under the forward-most landing gear after (presumably) checking the wheel.
 

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