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[Viking1066]

The Radioman on the SBD was also responsible for operating the aircraft's defensive armament, a pair of .30 caliber Browning machine guns INHG

 

[Viking1066]

A formation of USMC SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers on a transfer flight between Pearl Harbor and Midway Island, 1942 INHG

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Vought O2U-2 Corsair VS14M USNR

 

[Viking1066]

Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) after a flight Auguts 1944 REDD

 

[syscom3]

Pilots of No. 601 (County of London) Squadron scramble for their Hawker Hurricane fighters at RAF Northolt, Hillingdon,
west London, 30th December 1940. 601 Squadron is a unit of the RAF Reserves.

 

[syscom3]

"St Paul's Survives." Herbert Mason's photograph of St Paul's Cathedral taken on 29-30 December 1940.

 

[Viking1066]

Vought O2U-2M Corsair Mexican Air Force Ensenada c1934 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Vought O2U Corsairs and S-55A Ponta de Galeao 1934 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

War workers take a lunch break beneath camouflage netting next to a PB2Y at the Consolidated Vultee plant in San Diego FACB

 

[c1951]

Pilots of No. 601 (County of London) Squadron scramble for their Hawker Hurricane fighters at RAF Northolt, Hillingdon,
west London, 30th December 1940. 601 Squadron is a unit of the RAF Reserves.

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Auxiliary Air Force please! (They're like that)

 

[Count de Bastrop]

Vought O2U Corsairs and S-55A Ponta de Galeao 1934 WIKI
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Not to mention Martin PM-1 in water on the left and Loire et Olivier LeO 20 to the right of the Corsairs. There are more that I cannot ID beyond the LeO 20. I really like to look for the aircraft in the background that are not the intended subject of the photo.

 

[Viking1066]

Not to mention Martin PM-1 in water on the left and Loire et Olivier LeO 20 to the right of the Corsairs. There are more that I cannot ID beyond the LeO 20. I really like to look for the aircraft in the background that are not the intended subject of the photo.

It was from a Portuguese website, so information was very limited. I was doing a search for the O2U and this popped up. I found it interesting because there is a wide variety of aircraft, some of I have never seen before.

 

[syscom3]

This Consolidated PB2Y-2, bureau number 1633, is the first production Coronado four-engine flying
boat. It is delivered to the US Navy on 31 December 1940. Here it is shown, sans-camouflage, in flight.
This is probably somewhere in the vicinity of San Diego.

 

[Viking1066]

A view of the PN-10 flying boat taking on fuel at an unidentified location 1927 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Wearing the bomb-riding rabbit badge of the 97th Bomb Squadron, based at Thelepte, Tunisia during April 1943 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

View of the XF7B-1 on the ground at NAS Hampton Roads 1933. This is the only example of this aircraft built by Boeing FACB

 

[Viking1066]

USS Saratoga (CV 3) and the British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious rendezvoused in the Indian Ocean crewmen on board Saratoga assemble on the flight deck to salute their Royal Navy counterparts 1944 NAVS

 

[syscom3]

Lieutenant E.L. Reid, personnel officer of the west coast training center at Moffett Field, California, right, swears in Jimmy Stewart, movie star, as a second
lieutenant in the Air Corps on January 1, 1941. Stewart, who was one of Hollywood's most popular actors before he was inducted into the Army in 1941, was a corporal.

 

[syscom3]

B-18 Bolo bomber port wing with low-drag experimental panel, Langley Field, Virginia, 1 January 1941; note P-43 Lancer fighter in background.