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[Coyote]

Great pics!!!

 

[Coyote]

A formation of USMC SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers on a transfer flight between Pearl Harbor and Midway Island, 1942 INHG
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Possibly VMSB-241?

 

[c1951]

Vought Corsair on HMS Formidable. The bombs are for Barracuda bombers. August 1944 DEST
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Could that be Operation Tungsten with a Corsair in Background?

 

[Viking1066]

Walrus MkI RAF 284Sqn Norman Pickles DFC Sicily 1943 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Screenshot from John Ford's documentary "The Battle of Midway" from May 1942. These are SBD-3s of VB-8 from the USS Hornet (CV-8) INHG

 

[Viking1066]

WASP trainees SADA

 

[syscom3]

Parachute troops on parade in front of a Whitley bomber pressed into service in the airborne role,
RAF Ringway, Manchester, January 1941.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

US Navy North American SNJ-4s warming up for training at NAS Corpus Christi circa 1943 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

SNJ-5 Texans assigned to Basic Training Unit (BTU) 3 in flight near Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) Saufley Field FACB

 

[FulmenTheFinn]

FAF 1/LLv 28's (1st Flight, Squadron 28) Morane-Saulnier 406 MS-325 starting for a patrol flight, Viitana Airfield near Äänislinna (Petrozavodsk), 17 March 1942.

 

[Viking1066]

The 3-O-3 code indicates the third aircraft of the first section (red lower half of nose) of VO-3 (blue tailfin), thus assigned to the first ship in the 3rd Battleship Division, USS Idaho 1940 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Nancy Love at the controls of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Queen Bee" MESS

 

[Viking1066]

Walrus MkI RN RAF Combined ASR W2706 Bu Grara Tunisia Mar 1943 ASBIZ

 

[syscom3]

Production of the De Havilland Tiger Moth training aircraft, 20 January 1941. Moving assembly lines were used and the
photograph shows the fuselage travelling through the paint-spraying booth for exterior doping of the fuselage. Note the
factory worker's protective mask.

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

A British Avro Anson, on escort duty with a merchant shipping convoy, flies low over a British warship with which it is co-operating, somewhere off the coast of England, on January 20, 1941.

 

[Wurger]

 

[MIflyer]

The BEST P-51 production shot I have ever seen! From the Feb 2026 issue of Flight Journal.
Imagine using a Monogram 1/32 Phantom Mustang to make a diorama like this.

 

[Skip391]

Curtiss P-40B-C Warhawk and P-40CU - Tomahawk / Kittyhawk ASBIZ
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Looks like a P-36 in this picture.