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[Warspite63]

USS Langley, Sarattoga and Lexington. The Navy's first three aircraft carriers docked at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, circa 1930 NAVS
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Hmmmm .... bit of a leap in capabilities from CV-1 to CV-2/3 ......

 

[Viking1066]

A formation of B-17 Flying Fortresses of the "Bloody Hundredth" with "Hard Luck" 350th BS, 100th BG 8th Af 1944 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

ATS Plotters, Coastal Artillery at Dover INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Martlet fighters on the flight deck of HMS Formidable Sep 1942 DEST

 

[syscom3]

B-17E 41-2434, likely shortly after arrival in Australia. She was one of the B-17s that arrived during the Pearl Harbor attack and still wears the Hawaiian Air Depot camouflage many Pacific-based B-17 and B18s were painted in early 1942

 

[syscom3]

B-17E 41-2434, likely shortly after arrival in Australia. She was one of the B-17s that arrived during the Pearl Harbor attack and still wears the Hawaiian Air Depot camouflage many Pacific-based B-17 and B18s were painted in early 1942

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Here is a history of the plane. As per Joe Baughers site.

Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2 Dec41. Strategic Air Depot, Salt Lake City AAB, UT Dec41. 88th Reconnaissance Squadron, 7th Bomb Group, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA; preparation for overseas service.
The aircraft was part of an unarmed flight that departed Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA bound for Hickam Field, Oahu, Honolulu, TH 6Dec41. It was due to fly from USA to Luzon
in the Philippines via Hawaii, Midway, Wake Island, Port Moresby and Darwin as part of a ten squadron two-year deployment to the Philippines. It was stripped of all non-essential equipment, including ammunition, and had two long range fuel tanks installed in the bomb bays.
With the possibility of war being declared, General Arnold allowed the crew to take their bomb sight and machine guns. When the crew asked for ammunition they were told they would get that in Hawaii. The formation of B-17s arrived in Hawaii during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field 7Dec41. The pilot saw AA fire and a burning B-17 beside the runway as he arrived over Hickam Field. As he followed another B-17 he ran into AA fire from some American warships. He made a 180 degree turn, climbed quickly and flew towards Wheeler Field, Honolulu but found it burning as badly as Hickam Field. Low on fuel, he turned back to Hickam Field. As the plane was about to land it was attacked from behind by a Japanese fighter aircraft. Bullets hit no.2 propeller, the vertical stabiliser and the main spar on the left wing. Three Japanese aircraft strafed the crew as they ran from their B-17; they all made it safely to cover.
Assigned to COPPER (Seventh Air Force, Hawaii) 15 Dec 41. Assigned to PLUMB (Thirteenth Air Force, Philippines) 26 Dec 41. 14th Reconnaissance Squadron, Southern Bomb Group.

Assigned to Naval Task Force 11 (TF-11), 9 Feb 42. Departed Hickam Field 10 Feb 42 via Palmyra Atoll and Canton Island 11 Feb 42 to Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji 12 Feb 42. Departed 17 Feb 42 to Plaine De Gaiacs, New Caledonia, arriving RAAF Archerfield, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 18 Feb42 as a weather diversion.
To RAAF Amberley, Ipswich, QLD 19 Feb 42, arriving RAAF Garbutt, Townsville, QLD, Australia 20 Feb 42. The bomber was damaged in a collision with B-17E 41-2416 at Townsville, Australia 22 Feb 42. The left wing tip was swung into an engine on #416; it was replaced using the wing tip from #416.
Assigned to Project X (to reinforce the Far East Air Force) 14 Mar 42. 14th Reconnaissance Squadron, 19th Bomb Group 14 Mar 42. 40th Reconnaissance Squadron 21 Apr 42.
Assigned to SUMAC(Fifth Air Force, Australia) 29 Apr 42. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, RAAF Garbutt,
Townsville, QLD 16 May 42.
Battle damaged on a bombing mission 2 Jun 42. During the mission gunners claimed two Japanese Zero fighters south of Lae, New Guinea, and the bomber was hit by bullets but nobody aboard was injured. Returning to a Japanese air raid, the bomber was unable to land at Horn Island airfield and instead landed at Coen airfield, Cape Your Peninsula, QLD.
During the landing, the tail wheel assembly was damaged. A replacement tail wheel assembly was flown in and it took two days to clear a runway before the pilot flew it back to Garbutt Field at Townsville.

30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group. While on test flight for a new flare-dropping mechanism, the device malfunctioned, the flare exploded inside the aircraft which crashed into the sea about one mile off Yorkey Knob, near Cairns, QLD, Australia 16 Aug 42 (6MIA:5KIA). Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).

Condemned 31Oct44. SOC 9Jan45.

 

[MiTasol]

Here is a slightly damaged RAF aircraft that made it home. I suspect it is a Stirling or Halifax. IWM

 

[Airframes]

It's a Halifax, looking aft from near the entrance hatch.

 

[MiTasol]

Thanks