Picture of the day.

[SaparotRob]

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Polish-American pilot Gabreski in his P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft, 56th Fighter Group. In 1944, Gabreski had to crash land his fighter and was captured, but survived the war. He participated in aerial combat again during the Korean War. No photo credit available.

He was also president of the Long Island Railroad.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

This day in 1943, the RAF flew their final operation in the Lockheed Ventura. The bomber had been replaced by the de Havilland Mosquito. The Ventura was never very popular among RAF crews. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

This day in 1943, Allied forces launch Operation Avalanche, part of the Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The car that drove George S. Patton to death, December 1945. No photo credit available.

 

[Snautzer01]

D364 Foto Wehrmacht Frankreich Beute Flugzeug crash plane + ME109 | eBay
D362 Foto Wehrmacht Frankreich Beute Flugzeug crash plane TOP + Me109 He111 | eBay

 

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[syscom3]

735th Bomb Squadron's assembly ship Wham Bam , damaged in a midair collision with another bomber.

 

[Capt. Vick]

It may be ironic that it's a formation ship?

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Андрей]

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This is not Paris )))

 

[at6]

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Two of them, three of us. Someone will have to share.

 

[Snautzer01]

Plakat, Kleinplakat, Aushang, Fliegerausbildung in Japan, original | eBay

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

Ground crew winch a 500lb bomb into a 386th Bomb Group B-26

 

[syscom3]

A F6F-5N Hellcat 9 of VF(N)-91, USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) in flight over China, September 12, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Starboard bow view of war prize USS Z-39 (DD-939) off Boston, Massachusetts, 12 September 1945. She was formerly the German Destroyer Z-39.

 

[Wurger]