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Martin PBM-1 Mariner assembly line, December 1940

 

[Viking1066]

Martin B-10B of the 28th Bombardment Squadron over Maxwell Field 1935 WIKI

 

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Pilots and crew of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft of No 206 Squadron RAF Coastal Command prepare for a reconnaissance patrol on 2nd December 1940 at RAF Bircham Newton, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

 

[syscom3]

The President of North American Aviation, Inc., Dutch Kindelberger, visits an empty 75-acre alfalfa
small airport and adjacent empty field beside the Missouri River, in the Fairfax industrial district of
Kansas City. He approves the site, and this plant was constructed there within 13 months. It wound up
producing 6,608 B-25 bombers.

 

[Viking1066]

WRENS with Sea Hurricane (IWM) INHG

 

[Viking1066]

USAAF 41-2445-Boeing B-17E Fortress over Guadalcanal 1942 ASBIZ

 

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USS Langley (CV-1) underway off San Diego, California, 1928, with Vought VE-7 aircraft on her flight deck. USS Somers (DD-301) is in the background NAVS

 

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USS Cabot (CVL-28) July 1945 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

USS Langley, Sarattoga and Lexington. The Navy's first three aircraft carriers docked at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, circa 1930 NAVS

 

[Viking1066]

WAVES at

NAS Jacksonville WWII with SNJ INHG

 

[syscom3]

WAVES at View attachment 858980NAS Jacksonville WWII with SNJ INHG

Is that prop wash?

 

[syscom3]

Grumman F4F-3 and -3A Wildcats based on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, 1941.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman F4F 3 Wildcat VF-6 Black F22 with VS 6 and VB 6 aboard CV 6 USS Enterprise 11 May 1942 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Hoisting a Walrus aboard REDD

 

[Viking1066]

Martlet (Wildcat) fighters on HMS Formidable Sep 1942 DEST

 

[CATCH 22]

Grumman F4F 3 Wildcat VF-6 Black F22 with VS 6 and VB 6 aboard CV 6 USS Enterprise 11 May 1942 ASBIZ
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Check how some national insignia still have the red disk but the most are without resp. the red disk has been overpainted.

 

[SaparotRob]

Check how some national insignia still have the red disk but the most are without resp. the red disk has been overpainted.

Good catch!

 

[Greg Boeser]

Check how some national insignia still have the red disk but the most are without resp. the red disk has been overpainted.

Grumman F4F 3 Wildcat VF-6 Black F22 with VS 6 and VB 6 aboard CV 6 USS Enterprise 11 May 1942 ASBIZ
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Of course, it's an F4F-4. Unless somebody got creative with a chainsaw on those wings.

 

[syscom3]

The Hawker Tornado. The project ultimately was canceled but served as the foundation for
later aircraft Typhoon and Tempest.