Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Looks like the B-26 (9th USAAF, based in the UK) is named 'Dinger'. The crewman is exiting the aircraft via the main hatch in the nose wheel well.
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Make that CBI. I've seen this picture before. IIRC, the caption was: "Somewhere in China". I think it was in a chapter about flying the "hump". B-24s and C-87s hauled in a lot of the fuel, ordnance, and supplies that kept China going after the Burma Road was lost.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.
Four P-51D fighters fly off the right wing of a B-17.
Post #27. The B-17s are out of Ridgewell, and still over the UK.
Post # 30 That's a B-29 'Superfortress'.
B-29 not a B-17...
Thank you for the clarification, guys.
I was identifying the aircraft by wing shape and engine spacing instead of the actual engine itself. I really made myself out as a fool in that post!
Close-up, in-flight view of a Douglas SBD Dauntless piloted by American Lt. George Glacken (left) with his gunner Leo Boulanger, near New Guinea, early April, 1944.
There's something big right in front of the left horizontal stabilizer. The bailing out pilot maybe ?A Fw-190 (I'd say A-model, but considering my previous mis-calculations I'd take my guess with a grain of salt.) rolling left in a combat turn. Judging by the angle and position of this picture, I'd say the pilot probably didn't remain in the sky for too long afterwards.