Viking1066
Major
Wildcat of VF-6 testing out its weapons aboard USS Enterprise, Apr 10, 1942 WWAI.
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Viking1066
Major
While "SNAFU MARU" does not carry a tiger head, she does have the distinctive yellow spinner and wheel covers. Dust covers are in place LIFE
Viking1066
Major
US Coast Guard SPARs INHG
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
Interesting that USN still hadn't painted out the red centers of the stars until after Coral Sea. USAAF started painting them out much earlier, at least in Australia.
Also this is one of the first F4F-4s to hit the fleet.
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Viking1066
Major
USS Long Island (ACV-1) Underway with a mixed cargo of airplanes and stores on her flight deck, 25 May 1943. The planes include F4F, SBD, and TBF types LASS
MiTasol
Captain
That looks seriously top heavy. Was it a converted merchant ship?
Viking1066
Major
Long Island was laid down on 7 July 1939, as the C-3 cargo liner Mormacmail, under Maritime Commission contract, by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, as Yard No 185, launched at Chester, Pennsylvania 11 January 1940.
MiTasol
Captain
Thanks
Viking1066
Major
welcome sir.
Zippythehog
Staff Sergeant
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It does look like a cannelloni!
Probably concerned about a flame out, but flying a jet with the canopies open tends to reduce aerodynamic efficiency.
special ed
1st Lieutenant
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Love this shot! The two sailors in khakis with their hands in pockets while those in blue work.
Not mere sailors : tan uniform = officers.
Viking1066
Major
F4U-1A Corsair VMF-214 Black Sheep 829 at Munda 1943 REDD
Viking1066
Major
F6F-5 Hellcats VF-19 under attack on the deck of CV-16 November 1944 REDD
Viking1066
Major
Fitting the canvas cover into the wheel well in the wing. These were sometimes removed in the field LIFE
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
This Ju 88 A-1 of I/KG 54 just made it back to France and crashed near Dieppe
on August 28, 1940.
on August 28, 1940.
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
Boulton Paul Defiant Mk Is of No. 264 Squadron RAF based at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940. The squadron
was withdrawn from the front line on 28 August 1940 after the loss of 11 aircraft (including L7026 PS-V and N1535 PS-A),
five pilots, and nine air gunners. The Defiant was never committed to daylight operations within range of enemy fighters
again.
was withdrawn from the front line on 28 August 1940 after the loss of 11 aircraft (including L7026 PS-V and N1535 PS-A),
five pilots, and nine air gunners. The Defiant was never committed to daylight operations within range of enemy fighters
again.
Viking1066
Major
One DC-5 from KNILM (Dutch East Indies Airlines) was also captured and made it to Japan. At the end of the war found at Haneda STUR
