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[MiTasol]

Great photo but not a P-51.

Jean Landis posing with a P-51 in the 1940s UNSU

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[CATCH 22]

An Australian Gloster "Gladiator" fighter patrol returns to its desert base after a mission over the fighting line before Bardia, Libya, January 5, 1941, which fell to British force.

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Great photo showing some vehicles as well. To the right is a Ford "Woody" 1941. Judging by the bigger "desert" tires this is a C11ADF:

 

[Warspite63]

I titter inappropriately at your aesthetic confusement.

This is clearly a TFZ ..... Titter-Free Zone. So there

 

[Viking1066]

USS Saratoga (CV 3) an aircraft launches from the carrier during flight operations in the 1930s FACB

 

[Viking1066]

U.S. Navy Vought O2U-1 Corsair at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory at Hampton, Virginia AEROS

 

[Viking1066]

The 112th Observation Squadron of the Ohio National Guard was 'federalised' in November 1940 and equipped with O-47s at Pope Field 1941 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Junkers Ju-87s Picchiatelli of 97 Gruppo returning to Lecce-Galatina AVIO

 

[Warspite63]

The 112th Observation Squadron of the Ohio National Guard was 'federalised' in November 1940 and equipped with O-47s at Pope Field 1941 AIRH
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She looks ready to give birth to a clutch of cute little O-47lets.....

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Navy TBD-1 Devastators, Torpedo Squadron 2, of USS Lexington (CV-2), 6 January 1941.

 

[Viking1066]

Another view of a different SBD being refueled. The red outlines to the national insignia were only used for a only few months during the summer of 1943 INHG

 

[Viking1066]

An F6F Hellcat undergoes maintenance on board the USS Essex (CV 9) during a break in combat operations in 1944 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Catalina over the Pacific 1942 INHG

 

[c1951]

ATA pilot Joy Lofthouse UNSU
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Mummy to daughter whose a pilot in ATA, "Darling-is it Dangerous?" "No Mummy only when you land."

 

[GTX]

 

[Greg Boeser]

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Go Navy!

 

[GTX]

Another view of a different SBD being refueled. The red outlines to the national insignia were only used for a only few months during the summer of 1943 INHG
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Good diorama candidate

 

[SaparotRob]

An F6F Hellcat undergoes maintenance on board the USS Essex (CV 9) during a break in combat operations in 1944 FACB
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At a first, quick glance I thought it was an AI failure.

 

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N.A. T-28D South Vietnamese Air Force