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[cammerjeff]

Interesting, which Columbus? Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, Nebraska, Mississippi, Wisconsin?

The Mayflower Hotel was a landmark in Columbus Oh10

 

[syscom3]

The prototype Vultee XP-54, nicknamed the "Swoose Goose."

 

[Viking1066]

The Mayflower Hotel was a landmark in Columbus Oh10

Love the canned monster. Always one of my favorite Bugs episodes.

 

[Zippythehog]

The Mayflower Hotel was a landmark in Columbus Oh10

Nope. Not in Columbus Ohio.
There is a Mayflower Hotel in Columbus Circle, NY and one in Washington DC. Maybe one of these?

 

[Glider]

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Otherwise known as 'Wishful Thinking'

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss SOC-3 built by the Naval Aircraft Factory for use on battleships and cruisers. This plane was assigned to Observation Squadron Three on the battleship Mississippi 1940 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Dauntlesses from a stateside training command. The barred national insignia with the Insignia Blue borders became standard on August 31 1943 INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Walrus MkI Royal Navy L2228 Spotter of Spartivento HMS Sheffield May 1941-01 ASBIZ

 

[syscom3]

The Avro Lancaster prototype BT308 (originally called the Avro Mk III Manchester) right after its first flight, 9 January 1941.

 

[syscom3]

Italian bombers in Albania or Greece, 9 January 1941.

 

[syscom3]

Pilots of No. 601 (County of London) Squadron run to their waiting Hurricane aircraft at RAF Northolt, 9 January 1941. Squadron
scramble staged for General 'Hap' Arnold, USAAF.

 

[c1951]

Liberator, flight refueling a BOAC Lancastrian. The conversion of the Liberator was by Scottish Aviation with the trials being conducted in 1948

 

[Viking1066]

All 57 of the original SBD-1 variants were delivered to the Marine Corps. This example in the Yellow Wings scheme was assigned to the Squadron Commander of VMB-2 during 1940 INHG

 

[Viking1066]

B-17s at Popesti-Leordeni AF during Operation Reunion Romania 1944 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

F4U-1 Corsairs on the assembly line at the Vought-Sikorsky plant in Stratford, CT 1942 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

F3F-1s assigned to the VF-4B Red Rippers pictured in formation 1938 FACB

 

[Frog]

Spitfire Mk Vc, French Squadron 345 (Groupe de Chasse II/2), Shoreham Airfield, flown by lieutenant Kerourio, shot down by flak and killed as a captain on februay 8, 1945 flying Spitfire IX PL202.

Notice an incongrious Supermarine Sea Otter in the background.

 

[Viking1066]

F6F-3 Hellcat of fighting squadron VF-1 launches from the hangar deck catapult on board the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) during her shakedown cruise in the waters off Trinidad, 3 June 1943 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

First production O-17 Courier of the US Army 1930 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Formation of Dauntlesses in the Atlantic ASW scheme patrols the Caribbean in 1944. These SBDs are from Marine Scouting Squadron Three INHG