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[Viking1066]

Ki-2-IIa bomber escorted by Ki-10 fighter ALTH

 

[cammerjeff]

Ki-2-IIa bomber escorted by Ki-10 fighter ALTH
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Are we sure that is a Ki-10? It looks more like a Kawasaki Ki-3 to my eyes

 

[Warspite63]

Within five years, all were sunk.

Minor nitpick: Nagato survived until Operation Crossroads, in July (?) 1946

 

[Viking1066]

Minor nitpick: Nagato survived until Operation Crossroads, in July (?) 1946

Correct Atomic Bomb test.

 

[Viking1066]

Are we sure that is a Ki-10? It looks more like a Kawasaki Ki-3 to my eyes.
Good eyes. That is a Ki-3. Builds into a great kit. Time well spent.

 

[syscom3]

Dive bombers, known in the U.S. Navy as "hell divers" at Buffalo, New York on June 9, 1940, as mechanics and painters went to work on them to prepare them for service on the side of the Allies in the European war. The lanes are part of a group returned by the Navy to the manufacturers for sale to the Allies. Some of the planes have already been painted in camouflage design and are ready for the front.

 

[Bretoal2]

Dive bombers, known in the U.S. Navy as "hell divers" at Buffalo, New York on June 9, 1940, as mechanics and painters went to work on them to prepare them for service on the side of the Allies in the European war. The lanes are part of a group returned by the Navy to the manufacturers for sale to the Allies. Some of the planes have already been painted in camouflage design and are ready for the front.

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From Wikipedia :
" On 6 June 1940, the Roosevelt administration ordered the U.S. Navy to fly 50 SBC-4s of the Naval Reserve, currently in use by the Navy, to the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, New York, where the 50 planes would be refurbished to French standards. This included removing all U.S. markings on instruments and equipment, replacing the American machine guns with French 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Darne machine guns and repainting the aircraft in French camouflage colors. Once converted, the aircraft were to be delivered to RCAF Station Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, where they would be loaded onto the French aircraft carrier Béarn."

I think this picture is showing some of these 50 aircrafts, owing to their 3-colors vertical painting of rudder.

The Bearn never reached France before collapse and these plane were never used.

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss-Wright CW-21 fighters of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army in Java, 1940 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

Walrus-based-Arbroath NAVA

 

[SaparotRob]

From Wikipedia :
" On 6 June 1940, the Roosevelt administration ordered the U.S. Navy to fly 50 SBC-4s of the Naval Reserve, currently in use by the Navy, to the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, New York, where the 50 planes would be refurbished to French standards. This included removing all U.S. markings on instruments and equipment, replacing the American machine guns with French 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Darne machine guns and repainting the aircraft in French camouflage colors. Once converted, the aircraft were to be delivered to RCAF Station Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, where they would be loaded onto the French aircraft carrier Béarn."

I think this picture is showing some of these 50 aircrafts, owing to their 3-colors vertical painting of rudder.

The Bearn never reached France before collapse and these plane were never used.

Great post!

 

[Wurger]

Walrus-based-Arbroath NAVA
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Actually Dundee Fife-based Walruses of no. 751 Naval Air Squadron FAA in 1944 ... according to another source. The squadron was disbanded there in May 1944.

https://www.key.aero/article/afloat-walrus

 

[Viking1066]

Commonwealth CA-1 Wirraway 'A20-11' 1939 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Kawasaki Ki-96 prototype, one of three, abandoned for the Ki-102 design 1943 WIKI

 

[Warspite63]

From Wikipedia :
" On 6 June 1940, the Roosevelt administration ordered the U.S. Navy to fly 50 SBC-4s of the Naval Reserve, currently in use by the Navy, to the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, New York, where the 50 planes would be refurbished to French standards. This included removing all U.S. markings on instruments and equipment, replacing the American machine guns with French 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Darne machine guns and repainting the aircraft in French camouflage colors. Once converted, the aircraft were to be delivered to RCAF Station Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, where they would be loaded onto the French aircraft carrier Béarn."

I think this picture is showing some of these 50 aircrafts, owing to their 3-colors vertical painting of rudder.

The Bearn never reached France before collapse and these plane were never used.

When I was a kid, I had a book called (I think) 'The First Year of the War in Pictures'. I recall a picture of a helldiver in RAF markings being towed by a tractor across the Canada-US border. Wikipedia offers this: 'Five of the French aircraft could not fit on FR Béarn and were left at RCAF Station Dartmouth. In August 1940, the Royal Air Force acquired them, designated them "Cleveland Mk. Is" and shipped them to England in the aircraft carrier HMS Furious.[21]​ They were assembled at RAF Burtonwood, Lancashire, and delivered to RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire and later used by No. 24 (Communications) Squadron at RAF Hendon, Middlesex.[22]​ These aircraft were never used operationally and became ground trainers.'

 

[SaparotRob]

…These aircraft were never used operationally and became ground trainers.'

I guess that's why I never heard of RAF Clevelands.

 

[Viking1066]

Kawasaki Ki-78 sole prototype 1941-1942 FLIK

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Kawasaki Ki-78 sole prototype 1941-1942 FLIK
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A new one for me. More like a racer than a fighter.

 

[Bretoal2]

A new one for me. More like a racer than a fighter.

It WAS a racer !

 

[Viking1066]

IJN aircrafts at Oppama Air Base, 1945 BOUD

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!