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syscom3
Pacific Historian
Normandy, June 6th 1944. C47 Skytrains orbit over the drop zones. Note the gliders in the fields.
Hardlydank
Airman 1st Class
The Piaggio P.108 was a great plane, but Italy couldn't mass produce it. The plane only saw limited action, and was dogged by accidents throughout its career. Bruno Mussolini died after crashing a prototype into a house
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syscom3
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305th Bomb Group Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, ac # 43-38638, over Leipzig, Germany, 6 April 1945.
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B-25J Mitchell medium bomber (44-29600; 2Lt Francis A. Thompson) of 499th 'Bats Outta Hell' Bomb Squadron of 345th 'Air Apaches' Bomb Group attacking Japanese Type-C Escort Vessel No. 1, in Taiwan Strait south of Amoy (Xiamen), China, 6 April 1945.
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vikingBerserker
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I so want one of those!
michaelmaltby
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the schwimmin wagen seems to think it has right away over a sailing craft .... 
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Hardlydank
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Ki-43-IIs pull left in formation
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B-17 Flying Fortress (H8-S, serial number 43-39163) nicknamed "Happy Warrior" of the 835th Bomb Squadron, 486th Bomb Group in flight with two engines aflame after being hit by flak and friendly bombs from a plane above them, 7 April 1945. The bombing altitude was 15,000'. When the lead aircraft, #846, dropped its bombs, one of the incendiary clusters reportedly broke apart and struck #9163. The aircraft crashed at Parchim, Germany. Doug Spath, George Lyford, Frank Pikula, and Bob Frauenholtz were killed. Pilot Walt Center, Giovanni Cirelli, Albt Harris, Wyatt Kerr, Sam Powell, and Major Bain Fulton (observer) survived and became PoWs.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
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US soldiers of the 41st Armored Infantry Battalion, working with the 82nd Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Armored Division, study a captured German map, during Operation Cobra. July 1944. No photo credit available.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
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24cm Theodor Kanone (E) firing during the Battle of France as it supports German army crossing the Rhine river. May, 1940. No photo credit available.
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Japanese pilots with a Ki-45 in the background. No photo credit available.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
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Feldwebel and another rank with MP 38s in Crimea, 1942. No photo credit available.
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Disabled Char B1 bis "Bourgueil" being inspected by German soldiers, May 1940. No photo credit available.
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The IJN Yamato explodes, 7 April 1945. No photo credit available.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
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Tiger #313 from Schwere Panzerabteilung 503, flipped by the Allied bombing that preceded Operation Goodwood. Mannevile, France, 18 July 1944. No photo credit available.
