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[GTX]

Grumman F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighters landing on USS Enterprise (CV-6) after strikes on the Japanese base at Truk, in the Caroline Islands. 17-18 February 1944.

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[GTX]

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[GTX]

Soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, 15 October 1941



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[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[MiTasol]

B-17F 42-30243 in flight near Mount Raineer, Washington.
Ultimately assigned to the 8th AF, 94th BG, 331BS. Shot down on the Le Bourget France Mission on July 14 1943. Eight
POW and two others evaded capture. Enemy aircraft fire severely damaged tail, and the cockpit set afire. Crashed
Evreux, France.

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Are those bomb racks or storpedo racks inboard of the inboard engines

 

[N4521U]

No fancy masking here:

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Wasn't it an Overnight directive?

 

[syscom3]

USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) en route from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, 24–31 August 1944, with 14 PBJ-1D Mitchells from Marine Bombing Squadron (VMB) 611
and three JM-1 Marauders.

 

[hal bregg]

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Are those bomb racks or storpedo racks inboard of the inboard engines

Additional bomb racks. To be used in shorter missions. Rarely used.

 

[hal bregg]

This seems to be interesting:

1:3 (?) Bearcat model carried by B-17?.

 

[SaparotRob]

I would have remembered seeing that before. I haven't.
Parasite fighter program? Amazon Prime delivery?

 

[hal bregg]

Amazon Prime delivery?

....for rich and lazy modellers...

 

[SaparotRob]

If only.

 

[stug3]

This seems to be interesting:

1:3 (?) Bearcat model carried by B-17?.

 

[Snautzer01]

This seems to be interesting:
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1:3 (?) Bearcat model carried by B-17?.

Close fighter support.

 

[syscom3]

They sure were rugged!!! A B-17G of the 351st BG hit by 88mm FlaK on September 27th 1944

 

[Old Wizard]

That'll be a write off.

 

[N4521U]

That'll be a write off.

Oh hell no,
it'll buff out!

 

[syscom3]

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5), first of her class, underway, 21 July 1937.

 

[SaparotRob]

A truly beautiful ship.

 

[syscom3]

Ground crew work on a P61. Look at the prop spinner. A nice touch.