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[syscom3]

Ooops

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That's in San Diego.

 

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Mechanics working on the engine of P-39D Airacobra 'Shrimp' fighter aircraft at the maintenance complex at Townsville, Australia, in 1943.

 

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Ooops

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The house was repaired and still stands. So was the Dauntless. But it was later lost over Hawaii when it had a mid air collision with an army P-40.

 

[Warspite63]

Ooops

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'Oi, you can't park it there, mate!' .......

 

[syscom3]

Short Sunderland Mk I, N9023, KG-G of RAF No. 204 Squadron, which hit a hill while returning to
base at Skerjafjörður (near Reykjavik), Iceland on 24 April 1941.

 

[SaparotRob]

That's in San Diego.

Looks more like in the attic.

 

[MIflyer]

A-26B of the 391 BG, Note the four gun pods under the outer wings. These produced a lot of drag and were replaced by six guns in the wing, fighter style. But this version of the airplane had fourteen .50 cal guns firing forward.

 

[Viking1066]

Missouri crew performing abandon ship drills summer 1944 WW2B

 

[Viking1066]

Morane-Saulnier MS-406 October 1941 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

N2S and N3N training aircraft NAS Corpus Christi 1942-1943 WW2B

 

[syscom3]

This photo of American airmen, all in the rank of leading aircraftman, was taken at RCAF Uplands,
near Ottawa, on April 25, 1941. From left to right: J.G. Magee of Washington, D.C.; A.C. Young of
Cleveland, Ohio; C.F. Gallicher of Tulsa, Oklahoma; C.G. Johnston of Chicago, Illinois; A.B. Cleaveland
of Springfield, Illinois; and O.N. Leatherman of Lima, Ohio. (DND Archives, PL-2753, Royal Canadian
Air Force)

John Magee is the author of the famous poem, "High Flight," which has become the Air Force's official poem.

 

[syscom3]

Aircraft of Fighter Command displayed at Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, during a visit by Scottish
newspaper correspondents. In the foreground is a Hawker Hurricane Mark I of No. 315 Polish
Fighter Squadron RAF based at Speke, Liverpool; in the background a Bristol Blenheim Mark IF
of No. 23 Squadron RAF based at Ford, Sussex, while, overhead, three Supermarine Spitfires, flown
by the flying instructors of No. 58 Operational Training Unit based at Grangemouth, prepare to
give a flying demonstration. 25 April 1941.

 

[Viking1066]

Airspeed AS-10 Oxford I RRAF 1947-1949 AIRH

 

[MIflyer]

Missouri crew performing abandon ship drills summer 1944 WW2B

Okay, so NOBODY is going to climb in the Kingfisher to abandon the ship? I don't even know how to fly one, but I'd take it over a lifeboat.

 

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[Viking1066]

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveling under the wings of US Navy PB2Y Coronado flying boats during a visit to the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant at San Diego, C

alifornia in 1942 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

OS2U-2 Kingfisher of Scouting Squadron 2 on seaplane ramp at NAS Quonset Point Mar 20 1941 WW2B

 

[Viking1066]

P-47 Thunderbolts on the deck of USS Casablanca during a journey from the US to Guam July 1945 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Prototype XTBD-I, 2 April 1935 DOUG

 

[GTX]

OS2U-2 Kingfisher of Scouting Squadron 2 on seaplane ramp at NAS Quonset Point Mar 20 1941 WW2B
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Interesting roundel location on the fuselage nose.