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[Checkertail20]

The Bottisham Four

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss P-40C Warhawk 8PG33PS Yellow 50 at Mitchel Field the net

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull the net

 

[Viking1066]

Vehicle tenders of No. 53 Repair and Salvage Unit, transport salvaged Hawker Hurricane fuselages through the Western Desert for repair at the Hurricane Repair Section, Helwan, Egypt the net

 

[Viking1066]

Vickers 292 Wellesley Mk1 RAF Long Range Development Unit L2638 and L2639 at Richmond 30th the net

 

[ARTESH]

This grave marker in Libya reads, "Here rests an unknown English lieutenant, fallen during air
combat on June 14th, 1941.

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This photo should be very famous, i've seen shown in many youtube / instagram ww2 related pages and chanels. I wonder if the fallen eagle was identified later! I guess since there is info about date, location and rank, it should be, at least on paper, easier to identify.

 

[Wurger]

This photo should be very famous, i've seen shown in many youtube / instagram ww2 related pages and chanels. I wonder if the fallen eagle was identified later! I guess since there is info about date, location and rank, it should be, at least on paper, easier to identify.

The wrackage is a Martin Maryland Mk.II bomber and located south-west of Gazala. Acording to the net source the RAF Bomber Command losses for the day of 14 June 1941 and German records as well, show only one loss that matches this scene the 24 Squadron South African Air Force Martin Maryland Mk.II s/n.1609.
Out of the crew of four, three were killed in action and one was captured by the Germans. The aircraft was shot down by Oberleutnant Ludwig Franzisket of 3./Jagdgeschwader 27 south-west of Ain el Gazala at 5:06, just one minute after he shot down a Hurricane (No. V7818) from 1 Squadron South African Air Force which was escorting the Martin.

The crew of the Martin Maryland:
- 2nd Lieutenant Charles Cornack Gordon (service No. 47930) – KIA
- Air Sergeant Paul Wilhelm De Beer Bothma (service No. 102315) – KIA
- Air Sergeant Reginald Ernest Oatley Giles (service No. 102350) – KIA
- Lieutenant E.C. Newborn – POW.

These men are now buried at Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya.

the pic and info : The Grave of an Allied Pilot Buried by Germans During the North African Campaign, 1941. - Rare Historical Photos

 

[MIflyer]

The Champaign Flight Museum, Urbana, OH is rebuilding a B-17, using parts from the remains of several different airframes. The effort has been underway for over 20 years. If it is like most airplane projects they have been 90% done for the last 10 years.

 

[Elvis]

Curtiss P-40C Warhawk 8PG33PS Yellow 50 at Mitchel Field the net
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Mitchell Field on Long Island?
My dad's from there. He once told me the field was built in honour of Billy Mitchell and it was big news when Mitchell landed there just after the field opened (I think he might've gone to see to that, but I'm not sure anymore).
Dad would also say Mitchell Field was (more or less) "across the street" from Roosevelt Field, where Lindbergh took off from when he flew across the Atlantic Ocean.

 

[Viking1066]

B-18 Bolo bomber of the 25th Bomb Group at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, 1941. Note the hangar under construction in the background the net

 

[Viking1066]

B-24D Liberator lead assembly ship 'Thar She Blows Again' of 93rd BG, US 329th BS, RAF Horsham St. Faiths, Norfolk, England, March 24 1944 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Bristol 149 Blenheim Mk4 22 June 1944 the net

 

[Elvis]

B-24D Liberator lead assembly ship 'Thar She Blows Again' of 93rd BG, US 329th BS, RAF Horsham St. Faiths, Norfolk, England, March 24 1944 the net

...suddenly getting the urge to listen to...

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[Frog]

Vasarely, get out of this B-24.

 

[syscom3]

Graduating class of the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics in Newark, New
Jersey, June 17, 1941. The U.S. Army Air Corps becomes the U.S. Army Air
Force three days later, 20 June 1941.

 

[syscom3]

The prototype Brewster Bermuda (the name given to the Brewster SB2A Buccaneer by the United Kingdom)
on Long Island, summer of 1941.

 

[syscom3]

The unsuccessful Brewster SB2A-4 Buccaneer. A total of 1052 are built

 

[syscom3]

Miss Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix is waving from the cockpit at an east Canadian airport on June 17, 1941
ready to fly the Atlantic as first officer in a bombing plane which is being delivered to Britain.

 

[syscom3]

Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs taxying out for an air-test after assembly at Tengah, Singapore, following
their urgent shipment to the theater. June 1941.

 

[Viking1066]

In 1953 Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier, and she set numerous speed and altitude records throughout her career as a pilot the net