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[syscom3]

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

 

[syscom3]

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

 

[Vic Balshaw]

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!

 

[syscom3]

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

 

[bdefen]

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. ?

 

[syscom3]

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

 

[hal bregg]

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

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

 

[MIflyer]

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

 

[syscom3]

B-24 Liberators of the 22nd Bomb Group

 

[syscom3]

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

 

[Greg Boeser]

B-24 Liberators of the 22nd Bomb Group

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Go get 'em, Red Raiders!

 

[MIflyer]

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

 

[MiTasol]

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

 

[Lucky13]

Not bad, we'll have it back on the line first thing in the morning. USS Shangri-La
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your team must be getting slow. Mine would have it back on line today.

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

 

[WARSPITER]

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

 

[MIflyer]

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

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

 

[MIflyer]

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.

 

[Mustangtmg]

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?

 

[N4521U]

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

Nope!

 

[Greg Boeser]

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