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[syscom3]

B-17 Flying Fortress 2nd Bomb Group 429th Bomb Squadron nose art Tinas Tornado 44-83245

 

[Hardlydank]

Ki-43-IIa in New Guinea. This is apparently Tomio Hirohata's aircraft in the 59th Sentai. Hirohata is credited with 14 kills and also apparently later flew Ki-61s in the 244th sentai. He was KIA Apr. 22,1945.

 

[Snautzer01]

WWII Anti- VD Propaganda Poster Reprint On Original Period Paper *P247 | eBay

 

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WorldWar Photos

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[syscom3]

Form 1A and Bad Penny of the 90th Bomb Group in formation over the South Pacific. Note that the waist guns have been stowed inside and a hatch closed.

 

[Hardlydank]

Ki-43-IIa lineup. This was apparently taken at Rabaul in 1942. You can see the drop tanks are mounted on the earlier mounting points that were inboard of the gear

 

[Snautzer01]

Dana Andrews at Ontario AAF for 'The Best Years of Our Lives', 1946; copy slide | eBay

 

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Dana Andrews at Ontario AAF for 'The Best Years of Our Lives', 1946; copy slide | eBay

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Great movie but it was painful watching B-17's being chopped up.

 

[michaelmaltby]

WorldWar Photos

 

[syscom3]

WASPs and their Marauders. These ladies were one of the reasons the allies won the war.

 

[syscom3]

P-61 airplane in a test flight with ramjet burning, January 27, 1947. Image courtesy National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

 

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Captured German B-17 recaptured by the Allies. No photo credit available.

 

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No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Big Stink, The Great Artiste, and Enola Gay shortly before leaving for Hiroshima, August 1945. No photo credit available.

 

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A group of U.S. Army soldiers, rifles in hand, wears gas masks during a training exercise in California related to chemical attacks. 1943. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

108th Observation Squadron flight and ground crews pose with an O-47 at Howard Field, the Canal Zone, 1943. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Fortresses of the 91st Bomb Group en-route to Brunswick, Germany, 30 January 1944
Source: usaac-official

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

416th Bomb Group A-26s drop bombs on German targets through overcast, 1944-1945
Source: usaac-official