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[Viking1066]

1935 July 16th KING GEORGE V SILVER JUBILEE REVIEW The Cunard liner BERENGARIA, homeward bound from New York for Southampton, passes behind HMS RODNEY and between the rows of battleships REDD

 

[CATCH 22]

Fiat CR-42 Falco RSWAF F9.1Sqn White 9 Sweden 1945 ASBIZ
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IMHO this is a modern time photo from the Flygvapenmuseum in Linköping, Sweden. Note that Seversky J9 behind is in a different (earlier) camo. ASBIZ is not always a reliable source .
Both a/c can be seen today:

All photos above are from here.

 

[Viking1066]

IMHO this is a modern time photo from the Flygvapenmuseum in Linköping, Sweden. Note that Seversky J9 behind is in a different (earlier) camo.
Both a/c can be seen today:
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I concur with you on this. ASBIZ strikes again. They didn't notice either.

 

[Viking1066]

Fiat CR.42 Flaco with Iraqi markings during its delivery ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Junkers G24 (K30) 'S-505' Netherlands October 1926 AIRH

 

[MIflyer]

Lt Edwin "Lucky" Wright displays an 8 inch hole in the prop of his P-47, made by flak on his 39th mission, the 6th time he was hit. He flew 88 missions.

 

[javlin]

Lt Edwin "Lucky" Wright displays an 8 inch hole in the prop of his P-47, made by flak on his 39th mission, the 6th time he was hit. He flew 88 missions.

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I bet that was a bumpy ride home.

 

[Viking1066]

Junkers Ju 87B Picchiatellis Italian crews posing with recently transferred Stukas Southern Italy 1940-41 ASBIZ

 

[MIflyer]

I bet that was a bumpy ride home.

I read of case where a group of P-47's took off from the Marshall Islands and flew over to do a little bombing practice on an island still held by the Japanese. The Japanese still had some functional AAA and one round hit the top front of a P-47's cowl, peeled it back, and put a hole in the prop. The flight lead decided that while the damaged P-47 was still doing fine it had better divert to Guam, which was closer than their home base, and the pilot peeled off and headed away from the other airplanes.

The damaged P-47 landed on Guam and parked next to a C-54 that had just come in with a load of rookies from the states. The new guys gathered around the Thunderbolt and stared wide eyed at the the damage. One of them said to the pilot, "Kinda rough out there, huh?"

The pilot replied, "Rough! Rough! Let me tell you something! Thirty five of us took off this morning and I'm the only one that made it to Guam!"

 

[MIflyer]

Me-210 hidden in the brush along the autobahn near Munich. June 1945.

 

[yosimitesam]

So, the Americans copied the Japanese? Man, don't let that get out onto the internet at large...

Due to the stringent requirements for the Zero when it was under development, the Japanese invented a sophisticated heat treatment for 75S/75ST (now 7075) aluminum to make it a lot less brittle and suitable for aircraft use, since the alloy was significantly stronger than the 202x alloys normally used in American aircraft. The Americans reverse-engineered the heat treatment and starting using the alloy also, later in the war. The B-50 (B-29D) used a lot of the alloy, but it was post-war. It was one of the surprises found when examining the Akutan Zero captured in the Aleutians.

 

[Viking1066]

Fiat CR-42 Falco RHAF 1.3Kor Asz V209 Hungary August 1941 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Junkers Ju 87B Stukas in flight Italy 7th Feb 1942 ASBIZ