Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (22 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

E13A1 of the 958 Ku, part of a detachment which was sent to Rabaul to perform ASW patrol and reconnaissance missions and is seen being serviced in June of 1943 INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Flight instructor Nobuya Kinase of the Tsukuba Kokutai standing in front of an A6M2-K FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Formation of Ki-21s of the 1st chutai, 60 Hikō Sentai over the Malay Peninsula or French Indochina shortly after start of the war MODE

 

[cammerjeff]

Levasseur PL101 on the odd center lift of the Bearn late 1930's

source WW2 French Naval Aviation

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

The single example of Grumman G-36 under French colors coded NX-G1and never delivered , the seven examples earmarked for France were finally delivered to the British after modifications.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Ki-32 of 75 Hikō Sentai which could be 1st chutai or 2nd chutai which had its markings changed China 1939-1940 MODE

 

[Viking1066]

Ki-43 Hayabusa fighters with G4M1s on Halmahera Island 1944 REDD

 

[cammerjeff]

I am still not used to seeing IJA & IJN planes operating from the same airfield, I know it happened more often as the war continued, but my eyes still find it unusual.

 

[Viking1066]

Here paratroopers prepare to board Mitsubishi Ki-21-IIb "Sally" transports on May 24 1945 INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Ground crew refuel a A6M2-N. The 802nd marked their aircraft with a single red stripe on the vertical tail, tail codes began with "N1-" REDD

 

[SaparotRob]

Here paratroopers prepare to board Mitsubishi Ki-21-IIb "Sally" transports on May 24 1945 INHG
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Somebody drop a contact lens?

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

IJN Junyo's B5N2 taking off JAPE

 

[Viking1066]

IJN pilot posing beside an A6M3 Zero Model 32. Note the Hokoku stencil, which in this case indicates that the fighter was sponsored by the Manchukuo Secondary School FACB

 

[Viking1066]

IJN Akagi, Kinu, Abukuma and Fuso outside Tsingtao Harbor March 1939 MARS

 

[Viking1066]

A5M2s of 13th Kokuta 1938 MUSH

 

[Viking1066]

A6M2-K serving as a target tug, prepping for a take-off FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima B5N1 "Kate" from the film "Hawai Mare oki kaisen (The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay)" (1942) WIKI