Viking1066
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Lockheed Lodestars and Hudsons, and a Douglas Boston waiting to be shipped to Britain AIRH
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Viking1066
Brigadier General
Lower view of the Dauntlesses from a stateside training command INHG
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Older Potez XV A2 reconnaissance aircraft, used as trainers, including 428 / A3, 449 / A4, 451 /E1 and 447 / E4. Photo dated 1935 which would just be possible both for the Potez XVs and the Junkers F13s in the background 1935 AIRH
Actually not the 1935 but 1925. The biplanes were the 22 planes that were moved by the air from France to Poland in July 1925. The commanding officer was Gen. Zagórski. Because it wasn't possible to fly over Germany directly, the route was going to be over the Alps and Pyrenees additionally. For the reason the group flight was called the Zagórski's flight or air raid. Also the planes got the aircraft codes consisted of the letters ( A-E ) and digits ( 1-5 ) for the raid. What is more ... if you have a close up view at the image you may notice a Breguet XIX B2 parked between the Potez XV A2 code D1 and D4. The Breguet XIX B2 is one of the two first planes delivered to the Polish AF just during the group flight.
Here is a full shot taken during the flight ...
the pic source:
Zapomniany przelot - rajd generała Zagórskiego – tekst, pasty | JBZD
Zapomniany przelot - rajd generała Zagórskiego – Równo sto lat temu, 30 lipca 1925 roku zaczął się jeden z bardziej spektakularnych i brawurowych rajdów lotniczych w his…
Actually not the 1935 but 1925. The biplanes were the 22 planes that were moved by the air from France to Poland in July 1925. The commanding officer was Gen. Zagórski. Because it wasn't possible to fly over Germany directly, the route was going to be over the Alps and Pyrenees additionally. For the reason the group flight was called the Zagórski's flight or air raid. Also the planes got the aircraft codes consisted of the letters ( A-E ) and digits ( 1-5 ) for the raid. What is more ... if you have a close up view at the image you may notice a Breguet XIX B2 parked between the Potez XV A2 code D1 and D4. The Breguet XIX B2 is one of the two first planes delivered to the Polish AF just during the group flight.
Here is a full shot taken during the flight ...
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the pic source:
Zapomniany przelot - rajd generała Zagórskiego – tekst, pasty | JBZD
Zapomniany przelot - rajd generała Zagórskiego – Równo sto lat temu, 30 lipca 1925 roku zaczął się jeden z bardziej spektakularnych i brawurowych rajdów lotniczych w his…jbzd.com.pl
By attempting to cross into Spain—and thus fly over the Pyrenees—General Zagorski considerably complicated the route. But perhaps this was made to reinforce the idea that it was an air raid...
Poland purchased a total of 245 Potez XV aircraft with Lorraine 12 Da or 12 Db engines. One hundred were of French manufacture, and 135 were produced in Poland under license. They are said to have been numbered 40-01 to 40-110 (French ones) and 40-111 to 40-245 (Polish ones), but obviously this does not match the numbers on the picture.
Maybe we must understand 437 as 40-37, and so on .... ????
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That's possible. But the numbers started with the "40" like the 40.51 etc ( not with dash but with a dot ) ... were the Polish military registrations where the "40" identified the plane type and then the plane number. These markings were added when a plane was accepted by the Polish Army. So the seen numbers could be the Potez factory markings rather.
Also please notice that the PAF squares applied on these planes are incorrect actually. The exception are the A-3 and the one before the last biplane in the row. The incorrection in the Polish national markings is characteristic for the planes made in french factories and sent to Poland at that time.
French-made Potez XV A2 aircraft, ready for delivery to Poland ... please, notice the aircraft number there.
the pic source: samolotypolskie.pl - Potez XV
FulmenTheFinn
Airman 1st Class
Bf 109 V21, serial number 1770, ID code D-IFKQ, with a 1,200 hp Pratt & Whitney "Twin-Wasp" SC-G, probably in 1939.
Source: Willy Radinger, Walter Shick (1997): Messerschmitt Me 109: Das meistgebaute Jagdflugzeug der Welt Entwicklung, Erprobung und Technik, Alle Varianten: von Bf (Me) 109A bis 109E, p. 120.
Source: Willy Radinger, Walter Shick (1997): Messerschmitt Me 109: Das meistgebaute Jagdflugzeug der Welt Entwicklung, Erprobung und Technik, Alle Varianten: von Bf (Me) 109A bis 109E, p. 120.
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
344th Bomb Group B-26s drop bombs against a railway bridge near Nonnweiler, Germany, 29 January 1945
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
As a fickle youth, the Marauder was one of many favorites. It was during my "It's the fastest! thus my favorite" stage. Like the P-51, the B-70 (sic), F-104 and the F-105. The TV show "12 O'Clock High" had not yet aired.
Viking1066
Brigadier General
Loire 130 flying boat entered French naval service as a ship-borne observation aircraft in 1937. It shared a broad design similarity with the contemporary Supermarine Walrus and Aichi E11A "Laura" INHG
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Brigadier General
846 Squadron Tarpon are shown on a training flight in the U.S. in late 1943, they would be assigned to the escort carrier HMS Ravager INHG
Viking1066
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"Arsenal of Democracy" illustrated in a single photograph. Rows of U.S. Navy F6F Hellcats and F4U Corsairs awaiting shipment to the Pacific fill the blimp hanger at NAS Santa Anita, California in 1944 INHG
Count de Bastrop
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There are some SB2Cs and an SNB at the far end on the right, too.
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
2000 lbrs.
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
I doubt Marauders carried 2000 pounders.
