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[syscom3]

Doomed from the start.

British mechanics assembling Buffalo fighters, Singapore, circa 12 August 1941. "Royal Air Force mechanics in Singapore are working at top pressure to assemble, and pilots to test, large numbers of Brewster Buffaloes, American high-speed fighting planes. At one Singapore Royal Air Force station hangar after hangar is crammed with crated Buffaloes.

 

[Wurger]

A single-seater Il-2 shot down ...

the pic source: the net.

 

[Viking1066]

Consolidated B-24J "Liberators" under construction at the Consolidated-Vultee plant in San Diego, CA. during the summer of 1944 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Boeings' XPBB Sea Ranger the net

 

[Viking1066]

B-29s at North Field Guam of 29th BG and 19 BG of 314 BW photo 11 the net

 

[cammerjeff]

Boeings' XPBB Sea Ranger the net
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Nice sequence with the Boeing "Lone Ranger" and the reason it was the only one built as it used the same CW-3350's as the B-29's.

 

[c1951]

Doomed from the start.

British mechanics assembling Buffalo fighters, Singapore, circa 12 August 1941. "Royal Air Force mechanics in Singapore are working at top pressure to assemble, and pilots to test, large numbers of Brewster Buffaloes, American high-speed fighting planes. At one Singapore Royal Air Force station hangar after hangar is crammed with crated Buffaloes.

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Here's one from Google Life search term Singapore Google Search, two below LIFE

 

[Viking1066]

Role of the light bomber/reconnaissance aircraft was mostly taken by the French Breguet 19 biplane in the post war years the net

 

[Viking1066]

Solent III BOAC G-AKNP City of Cardiff the net

 

[Viking1066]

The Aero Vodochody A.304 the net

 

[syscom3]

Wellington X9764/AA:V of RAF No. 75 Squadron, shot down by a night fighter over the Zuider Zee
in the early hours of 13 August 1941. The pilot nurses the plane back to England and crash-lands
it here, in Thetford forest. The plane is repaired and returned to service.

 

[Viking1066]

B-29s at North Field Guam of 29th BG and 19 BG of 314 BW photo 2 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Crewman disengages the tail hook SB2U-2 Vindicator (42-S-4) of VS-42 on USS RANGER mid 1942 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Avengers of 849 NAS preparing to attack Pangkalan Brandan refinery 1945 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Westland whirlwind the net

 

[MIflyer]

The Lysander, O-47, and O-52 were all aircraft that proved to be useless in their original role. But the Lysander was useful for special ops missions in the ETO. When you think about it, Hawk's issuing that 1/48 kit was rather remarkable, and I'm glad I have one. Picture from Flight Journal.

 

[Viking1066]

The XSG-1 was a true amphibian, wheeled undercarriage was fitted for operations from shore installations or aircraft carriers and retracted into the float for water landings the net

 

[Viking1066]

Work on the starboard engines. The inboard prop is unusual as it is unpainted Espirito Santo 1942 the net

 

[Viking1066]

XR-8 Hovering flight at Philadelphia Airport in 1945 the net

 

[syscom3]

Ceremony at Camp Murphy, Rizal, 15 August 1941, marking the induction of the Philippine Army
Air Corps. Behind Lieutenant General Douglas MacArthur, from left to right, are Lieutenant Colonel
Richard K. Sutherland, Colonel Harold H. George, Lieutenant Colonel William F. Marquat, and
Major LeGrande A. Diller.