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[syscom3]

A B-32 fuselage hangs from a monorail on the roof of the Consolidated Vultee factory in Fort Worth, Texas, January 1945

 

[MIflyer]

A friend of mine was trained to be a B-32 gunner late in WWII, firing at RP-63's. He was told they would be used as low altitude gunships for the Invasion of Japan. The atomic bombing eliminated the need for that mission.

 

[syscom3]

Kind of cramped on the deck!. F4U-2s of VMF(N)-532 take off from USS Windham Bay (CVE-92),
12 July 1945

 

[cammerjeff]

Must be assigned Night Fighter defense!

 

[syscom3]

Bolo in the water! A Douglas Digby PR-N of the 10.(BR) Squadron RCAF

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Bolo in the water! A Douglas Digby PR-N of the 10.(BR) Squadron RCAF

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A little cold for the swing.

 

[syscom3]

A pair of Douglas B-18 Bolo's of the 88th RS, 1st RG. The stadium below and the hilly terrain indicates that they were flying above Pasadena, California.

 

[N4521U]

So That's where the C-47 got their rudders!
All them leftover rudders!!!!!!

 

[MIflyer]

So That's where the C-47 got their rudders!

The DC-3 is a simply beautiful airplane. But I guess that Douglas decided that bombers HAD to be ugly, even when they are using the same wing....

 

[XBe02Drvr]

A pair of Douglas B-18 Bolo's of the 88th RS, 1st RG. The stadium below and the hilly terrain indicates that they were flying above Pasadena, California.

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B,F&U!

 

[syscom3]

The USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90) ferrying inoperable aircraft to NAS Alameda, 8 July 1944. Visible onboard are eight PBY Catalina flying boats, eighteen F6F Hellcat fighters, and a J2F Duck amphibious biplane.

 

[Elvis]

...skip...

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Wouldn't have wanted to hit rough weather.

 

[DBII]

The USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90) ferrying inoperable aircraft to NAS Alameda, 8 July 1944. Visible onboard are eight PBY Catalina flying boats, eighteen F6F Hellcat fighters, and a J2F Duck amphibious biplane.

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That would be a great model build. Looks like 2 PBY in a two tone camo and the rest is three color. Most of the Hellcats look like bark blue, a couple may be the three color and several have a band on the nose. Cannot tell about the duck. Lots of weathering on the PBYs.

 

[Peter Gunn]

Yeah man, those Catalina's look well (hard) used.

 

[syscom3]

A Douglas B-18 Bolo undergoing an experimental 75mm gun test.

 

[Elvis]

Wow, in '39?!
I would've thought the idea for mounting a 75mm would've come much later.

 

[cammerjeff]

Is that a Periscope mounted above the cockpit?

 

[SaparotRob]

That's the death ray. syscom3 wasn't to have released that photo.

 

[Frog]

Wow, in '39?!
I would've thought the idea for mounting a 75mm would've come much later.

The first installation of a 75 mm cannon was with the Tellier 1100 cv trimotor floatplane in 1920 for antisubmarine use.

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