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• Jun 9, 2024

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syscom3

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A 49th Fighter Group P-40 with ground crew at Darwin, Australia, 1942

 

• Jun 9, 2024

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syscom3

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B-25Cs of the 13th Bomb Squadron at Charters Towers, Australia, 1942

 

• Jun 9, 2024

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Vic Balshaw

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syscom3 said:

B-25Cs of the 13th Bomb Squadron at Charters Towers, Australia, 1942

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Your fighting a war but you still have to have a parade!

 

• Jun 15, 2024

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syscom3

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The ground crew loads bombs onto 386th Bomb Group B-26's at Great Dunmow on June 5 1944.

 

• Jun 15, 2024

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bdefen

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syscom3 said:

The ground crew loads bombs onto 386th Bomb Group B-26's at Great Dunmow on June 5 1944.

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What's the weight of each of those bombs?.......250 lb. ?

 

• Jun 15, 2024

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syscom3

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syscom3 said:

The ground crew loads bombs onto 386th Bomb Group B-26's at Great Dunmow on June 5 1944.

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131755 (386th BG, 554th BS) crash landed in France Oct 7, 1944

 

• Jun 18, 2024

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hal bregg

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bdefen said:

What's the weight of each of those bombs?.......250 lb. ?

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Could be M31 (300 lb) or M57 (250 lb)

 

• Jun 20, 2024

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MIflyer

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Not bad. We'll have it back on the line in the morning.

 

• Jun 21, 2024

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syscom3

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B-24 Liberators of the 22nd Bomb Group

 

• Jun 21, 2024

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syscom3

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A captured Bf-109G-2/Trop on the 79th Fighter Group's flightline

 

• Jun 21, 2024

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Greg Boeser

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syscom3 said:

B-24 Liberators of the 22nd Bomb Group

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Go get 'em, Red Raiders!

 

• Jun 21, 2024

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MIflyer

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Not bad, we'll have it back on the line first thing in the morning. USS Shangri-La

 

• Jun 21, 2024

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MiTasol

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Aw flaming stralia

your team must be getting slow. Mine would have it back on line today.

 

• Jun 21, 2024

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Lucky13

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In my castle....

MIflyer said:

Not bad, we'll have it back on the line first thing in the morning. USS Shangri-La
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MiTasol said:

your team must be getting slow. Mine would have it back on line today.

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Away you go you amateurs....(gets to work with a stapler and tape)....give me 2 hours!

 

• Jun 21, 2024

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WARSPITER

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After you fix it, tell the driver to be more careful of concrete kerbing when reverse parking.

 

• Jun 22, 2024

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MIflyer

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MiTasol said:

your team must be getting slow. Mine would have it back on line today.

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Prop strike. Need to swap out the R-2800 and can't get one until 2300 tonight.

 

• Sunday at 10:03 AM

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MIflyer

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SBD's on the Big E. There must have been at least some desire in the USN to keep the SBD in service after WW2. It was a reliable aircraft that could be used for various purposes. Even today it would still be useful for COIN, CAS, and even intercepting drones. There was something absurd about OH-58 crews in Iraq hanging out the door and shooting at hostiles with M4 rifles after their four Hellfire missiles had been expended.

 

• Sunday at 9:28 PM

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syscom3 said:

An A-36A Apache of the 86th Fighter Group in Italy, April 1944

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Has no one pointed out that this is an A-36A Mustang?

 

• Sunday at 10:49 PM

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Mustangtmg said:

Has no one pointed out that this is an A-36A Mustang?

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Nope!

 

• Sunday at 11:50 PM

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Greg Boeser

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The 86th called them Apaches. I'm not going to argue.