SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I didn't know the Kingfisher was used by the RN. Why were they returned?
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Greg Boeser
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The queen didn't like competition.
Warspite63
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I believe they were deployed to some Armed Merchant Cruisers and the light cruiser HMS Enterprise. Enterprise had her catapult removed in ....late '43? And all AMC's were converted to troopships, with most armament and aircraft removed. So I'm guessing the RN had no need of them
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I recently watched a YT video that mentioned HMS Enterprise. She was present at the Normandy invasion in a squadron commanded by a USN captain. Captain Kirk.
I prefer it to be true so I didn't investigate further.
I prefer it to be true so I didn't investigate further.
Warspite63
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That's awesome. I wonder if he was an ancestor of USS Zumwalt's first CO: Captain James Kirk
James A. Kirk - Wikipedia
Good shots!
Viking1066
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The Fi 167 was designed as a torpedo bomber for Germany's projected aircraft carriers 1938 AIRH
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The last production SB2U-1 was converted to the XSB2U-3 configuration and tested as a floatplane NAVY
Viking1066
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This new production SB2U-3 ofVMS-3 appears to have all four guns fitted. although Marine Vindicators normally only carried o n e gun in the starboard wing USMC
Same!
From that James Bond picture?
Viking1066
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Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat prototype in flight during the summer of 1940. Finish is the "Yellow Wings" scheme, overall aluminum with Orange Yellow wing INHG
Viking1066
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Mimi Lindstrom-Segall, WASP pilot INHG
Viking1066
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More Marine F4F-3s, these carry the red cross markings for the Louisiana Wargames which were conducted from August to September of 1941 INHG
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syscom3
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Lockheed Electra, W9104, of No. 24 Squadron RAF, taxying on an airfield in the United Kingdom, 26 March 1941. Formerly
G-AFEB of British Airways Ltd, this aircraft was impressed into the RAF and delivered to No. 24 Squadron on 18 December
1939. It was struck off charge after a landing accident at Clifton, Yorkshire, on 12 October 1941.
G-AFEB of British Airways Ltd, this aircraft was impressed into the RAF and delivered to No. 24 Squadron on 18 December
1939. It was struck off charge after a landing accident at Clifton, Yorkshire, on 12 October 1941.
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syscom3
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B-17E Mac Mac serving as a transport with the 317th Troop Carrier Group, probably in New Guinea in 1943. She would crash
while attempting to land on Horn Island on 24 March 1944
while attempting to land on Horn Island on 24 March 1944
Viking1066
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Nancy Harkness Love in the cockpit in 1928, she would lead the WASPs in WWII INHG
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Viking1066
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SB2U-3, 1-S-16, of VMS-1 in flight during 1941. The aircraft was camouflaged in overall Non-specularLight Grav VOUG
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Pan American Airways Sikorsky S-40 flying boat in 1932 INHG
I think I've already posted this photo in the closed thread "Girls and planes" (or whatever the correct name was). Does anybody know to what flying school does the B-25J belong? The alpha-numeric marking (T6 I guess, could be TC though) with letters/digits in two different rows was not very common.
