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[Viking1066]

22 (City of Sydney) Squadron Ansons based at RAAF Richmond 1938 the net

 

[Viking1066]

A pair of smiling Officers in a Cletrac. Behind them is an F-5E Lightning of the 7th PRG at Mount Farm the net

 

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Ground crews carry out maintenance on one of Britain's first four-engined heavy bombers the net

 

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Women's Army Corps, Randolph Field, Texas, 1944 the net

 

[Frog]

Coke break - 479th Photo Section Robins Fields 1943 :

 

[Viking1066]

A Kingfisher is being rigged to the hoist for recovery the net

 

[Viking1066]

A Kingfisher at the moment of launch in early-war markings the net

 

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353 FG/352 FS 1944 the net

 

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A P-40 of the 49th Fighter Group in seen in the middle of an engine change on Guinea in May of 1943 the net

 

[syscom3]

Spitfire MkIIB, UZ-N, P8342, after the sortie on 29 August 1941. Sgt Machowiak shot down a
Bf109 on that flight, in return being shot up himself — note visibly damaged empennage.

 

[Viking1066]

A Blackburn Ripon Mk. IIA torpedo bomber of No.811 Squadron from the fleet aircraft carrier HMS FURIOUS drops a torpedo during training the net

 

[Viking1066]

A better view of the Cletrac, which were a common sight at USAAF airfields 1942 the net

 

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Lockheed Hudson the net

 

[Elvis]

A better view of the Cletrac, which were a common sight at USAAF airfields 1942 the net
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The M2 High-Speed Tractor, by any other name.

 

[syscom3]

Grumman XF4F-4 BuNo 1897 (F4F Wildcat), 30 August 1941. These served with the RAF and were called "Martlets."

 

[Viking1066]

A BlackBurn Shark with Nelson and Rodney underneath in 1937 the net

 

[Viking1066]

A Cletrac tows B-29A 44-61797 "Century Limited" of the 5th BS 9th BG on the island of Saipan, 1945 the net

 

[Viking1066]

A Kingfisher is launched from Missouri's starboard catapult the net

 

[Viking1066]

Another view of the same engine with another bomb laying about. The "clothes rack" under the wing is an air-to-surface radar aerial Espirito Santo 1942 the net

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!