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Caption-"With its gunner visible in the back cockpit, this Japanese dive bomber, smoke streaming from the cowling, is headed for destruction in the water below after being shot down near Truk, Japanese stronghold in the Carolines, by a Navy PB4Y on July 2, 1944. Lieutenant Commander William Janeshek, pilot of the American plane, said the gunner acted as though he was about to bail out and then suddenly sat down and was still in the plane when it hit the water and exploded"
Miguel..
Ante semejante cantidad y calidad de indeditas y dificiles,solo me resta,redoblar el esfuerzo...
Aqui van algunas de la mañana...
P-38, UK 1942
P-38
P-40, Nth Africa
Sighthead of Norden bombsight being taken aboard a Beechcraft AT-11, Texas, probably Midland AAF in 1942.
Caption from Jim- "I thought you might like some more information on the Norden bombsight ... My Dad was a Bombardier in WW2 and he told me a lot about it over the years. The Norden bombsight was composed of two pieces (see the 2nd picture below). Each bombardier carried the "sighthead" to the airplane before each mission. The main bombsight was permanently installed in the aircraft since it was connected to the autopilot, bomb doors, bomb releases, and so on. Just thought I would let you know the photo doesn't show a "new" bombsight being installed, it just shows a student bombardier arriving for his training mission (as shown by the AT-11) . If you look in the nose, the permanently installed part of the Norden is covered with a canvas. This was probably taken at Midland AAF, Texas which was a Bombardier training base. My Dad used to tell me that overseas (he was in Australia and New Guinea) he carried a .45 Automatic and was supposed to shoot anybody that tried to take the bag away from him."
Mustang pilots
Marines glider, Parris Island 1942
Devastators off Hawaii, USS Enterprise Torpedo Sqn 6, 1941 prewar.
More details from Jim- Tail colors assigned to the US Carriers between the wars-
CV-2 Lexington - Lemon Yellow
CV-3 Saratoga - White
CV-4 Ranger - Willow Green
CV-5 Yorktown - Insignia Red
CV-6 Enterprise - True Blue
CV-7 Wasp - Black
Example: True Blue tail = These are from USS Enterprise CV-6 (also verified by the "6-T-*" on each aircraft), so the
caption for the photo could be: "Douglas TBD Devastators from Torpedo Squadron 6, USS Enterprise off Hawaii"
Hellcat pilots, Lexington 1943
Langley Field, Virginia 1943
Igor Sikorsky at the controls of his early helicopter
Sikorsky airborne
Kingfisher
Helldiver
B-25 plant, Kansas City 1942
Hangar deck 1941
EDIT- 3 Aug 2014, it's the USS Lexington
Guam 1945
Glider assembly 1944
Bell YFM-1 Airacuda
Piper L-4 and B-24
Dauntless 1941
P-47 pilot Ed Fisher, 1944
PBY
Corsair and Mustang
C-47's
C-47's
B-25 in Burma
C-47
Curtiss O-52 "Owls"
Corsair at Bougainville, 1944
'The Black Sheep' Sqn
Sikorsky S43, Belem, Brazil 1943
Continuarà......
Biguà
Ante semejante cantidad y calidad de indeditas y dificiles,solo me resta,redoblar el esfuerzo...
Aqui van algunas de la mañana...
P-38, UK 1942
P-38
P-40, Nth Africa
Sighthead of Norden bombsight being taken aboard a Beechcraft AT-11, Texas, probably Midland AAF in 1942.
Caption from Jim- "I thought you might like some more information on the Norden bombsight ... My Dad was a Bombardier in WW2 and he told me a lot about it over the years. The Norden bombsight was composed of two pieces (see the 2nd picture below). Each bombardier carried the "sighthead" to the airplane before each mission. The main bombsight was permanently installed in the aircraft since it was connected to the autopilot, bomb doors, bomb releases, and so on. Just thought I would let you know the photo doesn't show a "new" bombsight being installed, it just shows a student bombardier arriving for his training mission (as shown by the AT-11) . If you look in the nose, the permanently installed part of the Norden is covered with a canvas. This was probably taken at Midland AAF, Texas which was a Bombardier training base. My Dad used to tell me that overseas (he was in Australia and New Guinea) he carried a .45 Automatic and was supposed to shoot anybody that tried to take the bag away from him."
Mustang pilots
Marines glider, Parris Island 1942
Devastators off Hawaii, USS Enterprise Torpedo Sqn 6, 1941 prewar.
More details from Jim- Tail colors assigned to the US Carriers between the wars-
CV-2 Lexington - Lemon Yellow
CV-3 Saratoga - White
CV-4 Ranger - Willow Green
CV-5 Yorktown - Insignia Red
CV-6 Enterprise - True Blue
CV-7 Wasp - Black
Example: True Blue tail = These are from USS Enterprise CV-6 (also verified by the "6-T-*" on each aircraft), so the
caption for the photo could be: "Douglas TBD Devastators from Torpedo Squadron 6, USS Enterprise off Hawaii"
Hellcat pilots, Lexington 1943
Langley Field, Virginia 1943
Igor Sikorsky at the controls of his early helicopter
Sikorsky airborne
Kingfisher
Helldiver
B-25 plant, Kansas City 1942
Hangar deck 1941
EDIT- 3 Aug 2014, it's the USS Lexington
Guam 1945
Glider assembly 1944
Bell YFM-1 Airacuda
Piper L-4 and B-24
Dauntless 1941
P-47 pilot Ed Fisher, 1944
PBY
Corsair and Mustang
C-47's
C-47's
B-25 in Burma
C-47
Curtiss O-52 "Owls"
Corsair at Bougainville, 1944
'The Black Sheep' Sqn
Sikorsky S43, Belem, Brazil 1943
Continuarà......
Biguà
Estimado Miguel
Volviò ZONA MILITAR!!!! y antes que me ganes de mano,aqui van mis cartas ineditas y dificiles de hoy a la tarde...
B-26
Dauntless
B-25's, Tarawa
B-25
B-17 crews, UK 1942
B-25s Doolittle Raid Commemorative flyover, Wright-Patterson airbase 2010
"Gauchito" el Avenger,se la banca!!!!
A-36 pilot in India, 1945
Avenger
A-20's
B-25's and A-20's
P-47 and P-51
P-47 and B-17
P-47's
P-47
P-47
P-47
P-47
Dauntless
P-47's
F4U's
Dauntless
P-38
Kingfisher
B-25
Bostons v railyard
B-25's over Vesuvius, Italy (como les habran quedado las helices y los motores !!!!!...limaditos)
B-25 covered in ash from Vesuvius,
PT-19
Corsair (no solo inedita y dificil...bizarra!!!)
P-47 down in Germany
Continuarà......
Volviò ZONA MILITAR!!!! y antes que me ganes de mano,aqui van mis cartas ineditas y dificiles de hoy a la tarde...
B-26
Dauntless
B-25's, Tarawa
B-25
B-17 crews, UK 1942
B-25s Doolittle Raid Commemorative flyover, Wright-Patterson airbase 2010
"Gauchito" el Avenger,se la banca!!!!
A-36 pilot in India, 1945
Avenger
A-20's
B-25's and A-20's
P-47 and P-51
P-47 and B-17
P-47's
P-47
P-47
P-47
P-47
Dauntless
P-47's
F4U's
Dauntless
P-38
Kingfisher
B-25
Bostons v railyard
B-25's over Vesuvius, Italy (como les habran quedado las helices y los motores !!!!!...limaditos)
B-25 covered in ash from Vesuvius,
PT-19
Corsair (no solo inedita y dificil...bizarra!!!)
P-47 down in Germany
Continuarà......
Uno de los Catalinas de Midway captado en misión de entrenamiento sobre las playas de la isla, días antes de la batalla por el equipo cinematográfico de John Ford USNR, famoso cineasta, quien legó a la posteridad invaluables fotografías y filmes de la decisiva batalla.
