My WW2 photos/Vids album

[Smokey Stover]

Nice shots!

Thanks

 

[Smokey Stover]

Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4 'Yellow 4' of 9./JG 3 'Udet' flown by Ofw. Eberhard von Boremski . Photographed early May 1942 at Chuguyiv airfield or possibly still during the unit's refit in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Germany, shortly before it was transferred back to the Eastern Front .

 

[Smokey Stover]

German Panzer III tanks in a scrap yard December 1943

 

[Smokey Stover]

From 1939 to 1945, Allied factories produced a mind-blowing 630,000 aircraft; one every 5 mins for 6 years straight!
I believe these are P-40's

 

[michaelmaltby]

.... notice the ill-fated Curtis-build P-47 line on the left of frame

 

[Smokey Stover]

.... notice the ill-fated Curtis-build P-47 line on the left of frame

Good eye! Yes i do believe Curtis assembled around 15,600 P-47's between 1942 to 1945.

 

[Smokey Stover]

Still from film shot in an Avro Lancaster by the RAF Film Production Unit, during a daylight attack on the Luftwaffe airfield and signals depot at St Cyr, France, by aircraft of No. 5 Group. A 4,000-lb HC bomb ('Cookie') and a smaller 500-lb MC bomb are seen just after they were released over the target.

 

[Smokey Stover]

Groundcrews of No. 159 Squadron RAF stand on the wings of Consolidated Liberator B Mark VIs to watch other aircraft of the Squadron return to Digri, India, from a long-distance bombing sortie to the Hnonngpladuk rail junction, 40 miles west of Bangkok,

 

[Smokey Stover]

Hawker Hurricane testing its guns at night.

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff.
Post # 202 - the aircraft appears to be in desert colours, with the white theater band on the nose, and is parked on sand, and carries the badge of JG27.

 

[michaelmaltby]

"... an arrangement was made with Curtiss to build the aircraft under license in a plant in Buffalo, New York. The Curtiss plant experienced serious problems and delays in producing Thunderbolts, and the 354 Curtiss-built fighters were relegated to stateside advanced flight training." [wiki]
That is putting it kindly .... the workmanship was sub par. Curtis was not up to speed on the skills and workmanship needed to build a complex turbo-charger like the Thud. [IMO]

 

[Crimea_River]

Agree with Terry on that 109 pic.

 

[Smokey Stover]

Lavochkin La-5 'White 15' Capt. Georgii Dmitrievich Kostylev, Leningrad 1943, by Valery Petelin (Representation)

 

[Smokey Stover]

Time to bail!....

 

[Smokey Stover]

Still the most glamorous fighter aircraft of all time...

 

[Smokey Stover]

Blohm_Voss_BV_142

 

[Smokey Stover]

P-51B 51st fighter group. Shark mouth nose art

 

[Crimea_River]

Pic in #215. 4 blade prop?

 

[Smokey Stover]

Pic in #215. 4 blade prop?

Late in 1941 the new fw190 made an appearance over the Channel. The fw190 was superior to the contemporary Spitfire Mk V in virtually every aspect. The response was the Spitfire Mk IX, essentially a MkVb fitted with a Merlin 61 rated at 1565 hp and a four bladed propeller. Does that answer your question? As im sure you know, in the field modifications were common practice for all countries during the war and aerial race to outdo opponents. Some older types of aircraft models were simply used as test beds before committing to full scale production of an untried and tested model/part/configuration.

 

[Smokey Stover]

Ghost cat. The Sepecat Jaguar T2A/CAS