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WASP's are listening intently as they are briefed on the nuances of formation flying.

 

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Sage advice for a P47 rookie. Well, its sage advice for every pilot!

 

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U.S. Marine F4U-1D Corsair of fighter squadron VMF-224 on the catapult ready to launch from the Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sitkoh Bay (CVE-86), March 28, 1945.

 

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A U.S. Navy TBM Avenger trailing smoke, returning to the fleet aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) after being damaged by Japanese anti-aircraft fire, during a strike on Minami Daito Jima in the Okinawa Operation, 28 March 1945.

 

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Modified testing Ki-43 with skis and a 4 bladed prop for harsh climates

 

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Orig. RIESEN Foto USAAF Luftbild zerstörtes Ölwerk EMMERICH am Rhein Mai 1945 | eBay
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The reason the German forces had so little fuel.

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Original WWII AAF Bomb Strike Photo - 98th Bomb Group, Moosbierbaum Oil | eBay

 

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Canadian soldiers marching from Dieppe .

 

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Inspecting the guns of a captured Ki-43-II Otsu.

 

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Paratroopers (front row) of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, with GIs from the 4th Infantry Division that landed at Utah Beach. Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, France. 7 June 1944. No photo credit available.

 

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American airmen posing with the side machine gun of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, May 1942. War History Online

 

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Inspecting the guns of a captured Ki-43-II Otsu.
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Not only captured but flown. Quite a few are in my captured Japanse thread.

 

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379th Bomb Group Boeing B-17G, ac# 44-8669, over Bremen, Germany, 30 March 1945.

 

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Paratroopers (front row) of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, with GIs from the 4th Infantry Division that landed at Utah Beach. Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, France. 7 June 1944. No photo credit available.

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I got to meet several of them when they came to our base as part of a USO tour. The soldiers came with the actors who portrayed them in Band of Brothers.

 

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That must have been awesome

 

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Sm.79 of the 253 Squadriglia torpedo bomber unit