Viking1066
Major
TBM-3 modified to TBM-3D night attack Avenger EAST
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Warspite63
Staff Sergeant
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They SHOULD have been building P-39s (runs for the door..........)
Nice shots!
flypaper2222
Senior Airman
From what I just read the second plant was opened close to the Buffalo airport which was just out side of Buffalo proper. The information stated the new plant built P-40's and C-46's so if thats true, and I'm not saying it is, this picture and all the other Life pictures from this series is at the new plant and they were still forced to work outside .
MiTasol
Captain
As far as I know the early P-40s were built at the #1 plant and later at both plants but that is only from non primary sources.
I have never seen a date for opening plant 2. Maps of Buffalo of the time would give an idea but there probably are not many around on the net and I am too busy to check.
Somewhere I have the addresses of both the plants in operation in about 43 (in parts of an inspectors handbook)
I have never seen a date for opening plant 2. Maps of Buffalo of the time would give an idea but there probably are not many around on the net and I am too busy to check.
Somewhere I have the addresses of both the plants in operation in about 43 (in parts of an inspectors handbook)
Viking1066
Major
Overloaded escort carrier, USS Long Island (CVE-1) underway off California on 10 June 1944, acting as an aircraft transport LASS
Viking1066
Major
OS2U Kingfisher being recovered by the USS Missouri (BB-63) summer 1944 REDD
flypaper2222
Senior Airman
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
Are those P47's?
Glider
Major
I was looking at the biplane at the back. I have no idea hat that could be
Could make for a good diorama idea
They seem to be from back to front : Grumman J2-F, Douglas SBD, Grumman F6-F.
Viking1066
Major
HMS Avenger (D14) (converted 9,000-ton American type C3 Liberty ship SS Rio Hudson) underway in rough seas, date, and location unknown. Note the unusual camouflage scheme on her flight deck L
ASS
Viking1066
Major
Martin B-10 variant of the 23d Bombardment Squadron taken in 1941 over Oahu, Hawaii WIKI
Viking1066
Major
Keystone B-5s of Luke Field's 72nd Bombardment Squadron pay a call to Wheeler 1930s JIVE
Viking1066
Major
USN Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina VP-61 Aleutian Islands March 1943 REDD
Viking1066
Major
U.S. Navy Martin PBM-1 Mariner of Patrol Squadron 55 (VP-55) is hoisted on board the seaplane tender USS Albemarle (AV-5), in 1941 WIKI
Note the retractable wing floats - only PBM-1 had those. All later variants and models had the fixed ones. The folding mechanism was really heavy and soon deleted.
Below a photo in colour of the same a/c 55 P1 (source is obvious):
Brilliant image
Is that Sea Hurricanes?
