Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (17 Viewers)

[CATCH 22]

Another photo from my archive, source Internet, with no mentioning of the a/c types. Just this:

USCG flying boats off Miami with USCGC Pandora 1934.

The darker painted a/c with the pusher engines are General Aviation PJ-1. The lighter painted a/c is Douglas RD-1 Dolphin.
General Aviation became part of North American Aviation (NAA), the latter building the B-25 and PBJ resp. The letter J denoting the manufacturer remained the same.
The boat looks pretty small but it was probably small in reality.

 

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A6M2-K trainers of the tsukuba Ku on a training flight 1944 MTOD

 

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A2N2 Hokoku-15 WORD

 

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A Ki-102 Otsu production aircraft of the 45th Hiko Sentai MODE

 

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A Ki-21-I of the 105 Kyōiku Hikō Sentai above Mt.Fuji MODE

 

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A6M2-N from the 34th Kokutai with a distinctive lightning bolt marking on the fuselage REDD

 

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An Aichi D3A Type 99 kanbaku (dive bomber) launches from the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Akagi WIKI

 

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Another view of the Nakajima Ki-49 unpainted August 1941 in its dualumin surface, done to simplify the production process MODE

 

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Br.20 "Na-Go" of the 3rd chutai, 12th Hiko Sentai, at Ebron base China with Italian colors MODE

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

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Bright orange target-tow A6M2-K of the Konoike Ku summer 1944 MTOD

 

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Captain Ito Susumu gives instructions to his subordinates from 302nd Kokutai at Atsugi Air Base FACB

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

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Carrier Soryu,photographed from the destroyer Murakumo,November 1939 FACB

 

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Close of a Ki-48 tail of 3rd chutai, Dai 90 Shūgeki Hikōtai named "Ritasugyu" Okinawa 1945 MODE

 

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First training aircraft the B-504. This is a Type 504K of the Kasumigaura Naval Air Station BURI

 

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VL Myrsky:

 

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flight deck of the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Akagi at Hitokappu Bay, Kuriles in November 1941 prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The other carriers in background are, from left to right Kaga, Shōkaku, Zuikaku, Hiryū, and Sōryū WIKI

 

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FPO 2/C Yoshiro Hashiguchi with a pet monkey during his time with 3rd Ku. He saw service over the Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Darwin, Guadalcanal and the Marianas FACB

 

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Fiat Br20 12th Sentai 7 Hikodan at Chushuitzu AF 1938 MODE