Club de aviones de combate de la IIWW

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View of the battleships aflame on Battleship Row alongside Ford Island in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, seventy-two years ago today.

Aerial view of the initial blows struck against Japanese ships as seen from a Japanese plane over Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, seventy-two years ago today.

 

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F-51 de República Dominicana

 

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Saab B-17 de Etiopia

 

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Re.2001

 

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Re.2005

 

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Escuadron 279 torpedero Fuerza Aérea Italiana.

 

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Commercial tugboats assist the aircraft carrier Lexington (CV 2) during her transit from the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts to the Boston Navy Yard for her final dry docking before her shakedown cruise. This image was taken on January 5, 1928, eighty-six years ago today

Plane handlers respot an SBD Dauntless dive bomber of Bombing Squadron (VB) 12 on the flight deck of the carrier Saratoga (CV-3) during operations in the Pacific in January 1944, seventy years ago this month.

Flight deck personnel make final inspections of the 3.5-inch rockets on the underside of a TBF-1C Avenger of Composite Squadron (VC) 9 prior to its launching from the escort carrier Mission Bay (CVE 59) on January 1, 1944, sixty-nine years ago today.

Deck handlers spot SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers of Escort-Scouting Squadron (VGS) 29 on the forward part of the flight deck of the auxiliary aircraft carrier Santee (ACV 29) on December 27, 1942, seventy-one years ago today.

Another one from the files of airplanes that did not make it, in this case an XF7B-1 on the ground at Naval Air Station (NAS) Hampton Roads, Virginia, on December 26, 1933, eighty-years ago today.

An F6F Hellcat soars over the silhouetted LSO platform after taking a wave-off during flight operations on board the auxiliary carrier Nassau (ACV 16), circa 1943.

 

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Soviet AF Ilyushin IL 2 Sturmovik red 9 being salvaged by German troops Barbarossa 1941

Soviet AF Polikarpov I 153 Chaika Black 8 destroyed on the ground by Luftwaffe straffing Barbarossa

Spitfire Vc(trop) of No. 417 Squadron RCAF in Tunisia in 1943.

Fileilots discuss a sortie by the nose of a Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC of No. 224 Group RAF in north-eastern India, 1943

 

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View of a TBM-1C Avenger assigned to Torpedo Squadron Two (VT) 2 on the ground at Naval Air Station (NAS) Puunene, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, on January 7, 1944, seventy years ago today. The damage visible on the airplane was the result of a night mid-air collision. VT-2 operated from USS Hornet (CV 12) during that carrier's initial combat actions between March-September 1944. This included the "Mission Beyond Darkness" in the June 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea, as well as strikes against the Palaus, Carolines, the Bonin Islands, New Guinea, and the Marianas.

TBD-1 Devastators of Torpedo Squadron (VT) 2 pictured in formation, the paint schemes on the airplanes soon to be replaced with a camouflage scheme outlined in a Bureau of Aeronautics directive issued just over week before this photograph, which was taken on January 6, 1941, seventy-three years ago today.

 

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Commercial tugboats assist the aircraft carrier Lexington (CV 2) during her transit from the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts to the Boston Navy Yard for her final dry docking before her shakedown cruise. This image was taken on January 5, 1928, eighty-six years ago today

Pensar que fué diseñado como un crucero de batalla. Se fijaron en los cañones de 8 pulgadas o 203 mm al lado de la isla?

 

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View of a TBM-1C Avenger assigned to Torpedo Squadron Two (VT) 2 on the ground at Naval Air Station (NAS) Puunene, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, on January 7, 1944, seventy years ago today. The damage visible on the airplane was the result of a night mid-air collision. VT-2 operated from USS Hornet (CV 12) during that carrier's initial combat actions between March-September 1944. This included the "Mission Beyond Darkness" in the June 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea, as well as strikes against the Palaus, Carolines, the Bonin Islands, New Guinea, and the Marianas.

Grumman
Iron Works!

 

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Este filtro le trajo mas problema que beneficios.

 

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A ground crewman pictured turning over the propeller of an F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 222 prior to its launching on a mission from Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands on January 15, 1944, seventy years ago today.

TBF-1C Avengers of Torpedo Squadron (VT) 32 pictured in flight over the waters off Oahu in the Territory of Hawaii, on January 16, 1944, seventy years ago today. Soon after this photograph was taken the squadron deployed to as part of Air Group 32 in the carrier Langley (CVL 27).

Strike photograph showing ships in the harbor at Hong Kong under attack by SB2C Helldivers of Bombing Squadron (VB) 11 off the carrier Hornet (CV 12) on January 16, 1945, sixty-nine years ago today.

An F4U-4 Corsair of Fighter Squadron (VF) 671 passes by the landing signal officer platform during approach for recovery on the flight deck of the carrier Tarawa (CV 40) underway in the Mediterranean Sea on January 19, 1952, sixty-two years ago today.

 

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Película educacional soviética sobre el Me-262.

 

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B-29 en China

 

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Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu "Asesino de Dragones", apodado "Nick" por los Aliados. El bimotor que más me gusta, ridículamente hermoso.

 

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suenan las alarmas se acercan unos Tupolev TB-3