Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (7 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

Devastators of VT-5 park on USS Yorktown's after flight deck at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, in June 1940, taking full advantage of their folding wings HISN

 

[Viking1066]

VB-17 SB2C-1's turning into the pattern to land aboard Bunker Hill after their raid on Rabaul, November 11th, 1943 NAV

 

[Viking1066]

The Combined Fleet at the Yokosuka Naval Review, October 11, 1940 From the IJN Kako Jumano, Suzuya, Mogami, Tone and Chikuma. Furutaka at extreme left. REDD

The Combined Fleet at the Yokosuka Naval Review, October 11, 1940 Front to back/left to right IJN Kongo, Mutsu, Nagato, Soryu, Hiryu and Akagi. repair ship Komahashi, minelayer Katsuriki nad sub tenders Jingei and Chogei REDD

 

[Viking1066]

Ki-27bs of 10 Dokuritsu Chutai with Commander Taii Kiyoshi Kimura KEGO

 

[Viking1066]

Sunset at Gonaives Bay, Haiti, September 24, 1934. USS SARATOGA in the foreground HISN

 

[Viking1066]

U.S. battle force at Lahaina, 16 February 1932. Forty-two ships appear in this image, including the carriers USS SARATOGA (CV-3), with stripe on her stack, and USS LEXINGTON (CV-2) HISN

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman Goblins of 118 Sqn RCAF near Dartmouth N.S. in 1941 WIKI

 

[SaparotRob]

Grumman Goblins of 118 Sqn RCAF near Dartmouth N.S. in 1941 WIKI
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Don't see many pictures of these!

 

[Viking1066]

USSAF Cadet Bombardiers with B-18 Bolo at Albuquerque Flying School 1942 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

ATA pilots INHG

 

[Viking1066]

USS Long Island (AVG-1) Curtiss SOC-3A Seagull scout-observation planes, of the carrier's embarked squadron, VGS-1, parked on the flight deck, 10 May 1942 LASS

 

[Viking1066]

TBD-1 Devastators of VT-7 at Scapa Flow on U-Boat patrol April 1942 from USS Wasp (CV-7) NMNA

 

[Viking1066]

Dutch B-10 seen here during take-off from Sembawang, Singapore STUR

 

[Viking1066]

B-24H Liberator 8AF 467BG791BS 4ZP Pete the Pom Inspector II assembly ship ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

A-17s of the 13th Attack Squadron 1930's JIVE

 

[Wurger]

Not a pic actually but .... ORP Orzeł escaping the Tallinn harbour 1939. The author : Grzegorz Nawrocki ...

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[Frog]

Airplane identification Training US Naval Air Station Lambert Field, St Louis.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

A pilot trainee stands proudly before an MXY8. Somewhere between 50 and 60 of these unpowered gliders had been produced before the end of the war INHG

Here Lieutenant Commander Toyohiko Inuzuka enters the cockpit of a J8M prototype in preparation for its first flight on 07JUL45 INHG

 

[Viking1066]

SBD-4s fly over the USS Sangamon (CVE-26) during Operation Torch 1942 NAAC