Month: May 2018

A recent post from my MITSUBISHI A6M ZERO collection.

At the risk of “flogging a dead horse” here is a post from my WWII JAPANESE AVIATION collection from nearly a year…

For Paolo Viti and others interested in the Kamikaze pilots, this is an old post I created awhile back.

An F-86 Sabre nighttime firepower display

An F-51 “Mustang” (restoration) from the Korean War named “Was That Too Fast”

Another post regarding Col. Glenn T. Eagleston.

A recent post from my KOREAN WAR AVIATION collection.

A Republic P-47D-30-RE of Maj.

A Republic P-47N “Thunderbolt” from the Pacific Theater of Operations.

THE FIRST PILOT TO FLY A LOOP – SEPTEMBER 9, 1913 – PYOTR NESTEROV

A recent post from my WORLD WAR ONE collection.

A Republic P-47 “Thunderbolt” from the Pacific Theater of Operations

Republic P-47 “Thunderbolt”

“Edward Henry O’Hare was born at St.

A recent post from my WORLD WAR ONE collection.

Soviet Air Force officers, Rufina Gasheva (848 night combat missions) and Nataly Meklin (980 night combat missions)…

A Finnish Brewster Buffalo 239 fighter (BW-352) of (Squadron) Lentolaivue/24 at Selänpää airfield.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress 42-24592 “Dauntless Dotty” 869th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air…

A squadron of SBD Dauntless dive bombers over the Pacific.

SBD Dauntless’s in flight. From LIFE magazine.

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A B-26 “Marauder” – “Pappy’s Pram”

The image (below) is from LIFE magazine (Hattip D Shelly), 1938.

Douglas TBD Devastator

A Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber being readied for launch on USS Enterprise off Hawaii, pre-war 1941