MiTasol
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I will ask Ralph and see what he comes back with.
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I will ask Ralph and see what he comes back with.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Very different cowlings so I doubt it.
Zippythehog
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Why is the tail wheel door open on the Spit and there's no wheel?
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
According to my source this photo was taken in South Africa in 1945 and it is a SAAF Junkers Ju 52/3m
At the start of the war the entire South African Airways fleet of Ju 52's were taken over by the SAAF and they were used for transport and troop carrying duties.
This Tante Ju (with Pratt and Whitney Hornet engines and three bladed propellers.) was photographed at Wonderboom airfield near Pretoria towards the end of the war.
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MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
SAAF Hawker Hart
RAF Sunderland
RAF Sunderland
hawkeye2an
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MiTasol
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Princess, later Queen, Elizabeth early in ww2 when she was a fully trained ambulance driver which means she did all the routine maintenance, including changing flat tyres.
This was when the US was doing what they are doing now with Ukraine. Selling and donating material so that the US manufactures were making big bucks and the factories were keeping unemployment down but refusing to get more involved in case it caused the war to excalate.
Hawker Hurricane wing centre section repairs - 1940 - with very new looking bullet resistant fuel tanks.
This was when the US was doing what they are doing now with Ukraine. Selling and donating material so that the US manufactures were making big bucks and the factories were keeping unemployment down but refusing to get more involved in case it caused the war to excalate.
Hawker Hurricane wing centre section repairs - 1940 - with very new looking bullet resistant fuel tanks.
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MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
I posted about an ATA pilot on Obituaries earler today and then came across this photo of Second Officer Helen Harrison, A.T. A.
Harrison became qualified to ferry all types of single and twin engine aircraft. In 1943 she co-piloted a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber across the North Atlantic Ocean from Montreal, Quebec, to Scotland, and until 1944 she delivered military aircraft within the United Kingdom.
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Harrison served in the ATA as a Pilot First Officer from 1 May 1942 until 22 March 1944.[3] In 1943 she co-piloted a Mitchell bomber across the North Atlantic Ocean from Montreal, Quebec to Scotland, and until 1944 she delivered military aircraft within the United Kingdom.
WAAFs and ATA pilots
The ladies in flying suits or wearing slacks are ATA pilots, those with dresses and stockings are members of the WAAF.
Harrison became qualified to ferry all types of single and twin engine aircraft. In 1943 she co-piloted a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber across the North Atlantic Ocean from Montreal, Quebec, to Scotland, and until 1944 she delivered military aircraft within the United Kingdom.
Helen Harrison-Bristol - Wikipedia
WAAFs and ATA pilots
The ladies in flying suits or wearing slacks are ATA pilots, those with dresses and stockings are members of the WAAF.
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I love that Hawker Hart photo. Would make for a great diorama
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syscom3
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The war was over. The aircraft obsolete and not wanted. Fuselages of B17's are stacked up
ready to be cut up for recycling in England, 27 October 1945.
ready to be cut up for recycling in England, 27 October 1945.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Air Apaches B-25D. Was painting over the nose plexiglas to reduce Sun-induced temperatures, or what?
MIflyer
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Supposedly, that Ju52 had been equipped with bomb racks to enable it to attack the Panama Canal. Of course bomber Ju52's were in use in Europe.
This is a modified 4-gun-nose strafer - no bombardier in the "greenhouse". AFAIK the glazing was painted over to lower the reflections thus to make the plane more "invisible". There are a couple of different variants of over-painting, leaving some areas transparent and other not.
1. Front part of the nose completely transparent:
2. Front area of the nose only partially transparent:
3. Nose completely over-painted:
Some or all of the rear windows were often faired over with sheet metal, not with plexiglass:
In all (known to me) cases the second (middle) window on the left side was covered with sheet metal and worked as an openable cover of the gun-department:
All photos above show a/c from the 345th or 38th BG., in SWPA.
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That girl next to the ambulance looks familiar. 
Classmate? Or simply a neighbor?That girl next to the ambulance looks familiar.
cammerjeff
Staff Sergeant
Or a future world Leader?
I was so hoping to hear some fascinating family saga...Or a future world Leader?
Lucky13
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Pondering the complexity of double penetration.Is this where the expression "explosive sh*ts" comes from?
