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[cammerjeff]

I never knew that C-47's were ever flown off of a Straight Deck Essex class Carrier! Here seen getting ready to launch to Antarctica Post WWII off of CV-47

source warship wednesday – laststandonzombieisland

 

[MIflyer]

Now this is a true Rara Avis. It is a USAAF Carpetbagger Mossie, PRXVI. The Carpetbaggers were the 492nd Bombardment Group and had been the first unit equipped with ASW radar in B-24's which made them very valuable to both the RAF, the USAAF, and the USN. When the mission was transferred to RAF and USN units the USAAF found itself with a well trained heavy bomber group that was inexperienced in either formation flying or high altitude bombing. So they were transferred to special operations, such as supplying secret agents in occupied Europe. From Flight Journal, June 2015.

 

[MIflyer]

Jumping Jacques, a P-51D assigned to the 3rd Air Commando, show in the PI in 1945. Flown by Lt Jacques Young. From the June 2015 issue of Flight Journal.

 

[Viking1066]

USS Saratoga (CV-3) Landing planes June 6, 1935 HISN

 

[Viking1066]

42 109809 B-24J Liberator 7AF 30BG819BS Evasive Action Marianas Islands Dec 1944 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

YB-17 Flying Fortress at rest at Langley Field, Virginia, May 1942 WWAI

 

[Zippythehog]

YB-17 Flying Fortress at rest at Langley Field, Virginia, May 1942 WWAI
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Very big ordinance.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Frog]

 

[SaparotRob]

Very big ordinance.

No ordinary ordinance.

 

[MiTasol]

Hi F Frog -- do you have the complete booklet?

The US Army put out a lot of pocket guides (like the two Australian ones attached) but that looks like it is a purely 20th AF booklet.

 

[MiTasol]

Tried posting the Aus Pocket guides twice and both times failed. Its got me beat.

 

[Viking1066]

B-17G Fortresses newly manufactured REDD

 

[Frog]

Hi F Frog -- do you have the complete booklet?

The US Army put out a lot of pocket guides (like the two Australian ones attached) but that looks like it is a purely 20th AF booklet.

Matthieu 7.8 : Everyone who asks receives.

 

[MiTasol]

Here, hopefully, are the two Australian and two French Pocket guides

 

[MiTasol]

Death notice for a Kiwi MIA, 1943, done as a poem.

 

[Viking1066]

P-12D assigned to the Kelly Field school squadrons during 1937 BESP

 

[MiTasol]

Matthieu 7.8 : Everyone who asks receives.

Is it just me or are pages 8 and 9 missing?
I am having a #$%^& load of problems with my ISP with pages not opening and mail not arriving and being blocked for reasons like this below. I do not want to change ISPs as they were great for the last 14 years and just turned bad. Plus if I changed I would still need to keep them for a couple of months until everyone knew my new email.

 

[syscom3]

This Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 (W.Nr. 5587) "Yellow 10" of 6./JG 51 "Molders" crash-lands
at East Langdon in Kent on 24 August 1940. The pilot, Oberfeldwebel Beeck, becomes a POW.

 

[Viking1066]

USS Lexington while at sea, c. 1939. Note Douglas TBD - 1 Devastator aircraft on deck aft HISN