Author: Lord Anubis

Pilots of 19 Squadron scramble in front of the press at Duxford, March 1939.

An image of a B-17, possibly an older F series, coming under attack by an Me-163 Komet rocket propelled interceptor.

A Bf-109E “Jabo” of JG53 about to taxi out for takeoff for a mission over England, October 1940.

Spitfire Mk.IXc BS456, coded UZ-Z of 306 (Polish) Squadron at Northolt on the 16th November 1942.

The Mitsubishi J2M Raiden (Thunderbolt), Allied code name “Jack”.

Spitfire F21 LA195 in service with 615 Squadron, 1947-1948.

Spitfire Mk.IXc MH880 at the Empire Central Flying School at RAF Hullavington, where it served with the Handling…

In order to combat the B-29, Japan converted different types of aircraft for the role.

An Iraqi Bf-110 in 1941 during the Iraqi Uprising against the British, to which both Germany and Italy gave support…

A collection of colour images of the Junkers Ju-88 in its many forms as bomber, reconnaissance aircraft and…

A collection of colour photos of the Short Stirling, the RAF’s first four-engined long range bomber of WW2.

Two P-51s that served with 19 Squadron, RAF.

Two views of Westland Whirlwind P7110, the 100th and one of the last Whirlwinds built.

Ju87C, a version of the Stuka designed for use on the German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin and was adapted for that…

Pictures of German assembly lines building Bf-109s.

A colour image of an Iraqi Bf-109 E-7.

Artwork of a Messerschmitt Bf 109F-2 of the Escuadrilla Azul, 15.(span.)/Jagdgeschwader 51, Winter 1942/1943.

A Bristol Beaufort being worked upon by groundcrew at the airfield at either Ta’Quali or Luqa on Malta, 1943-43.

A Finnish Air Force Bf-109G flown by 12.5 kill ace Lieutenant Urho Sarjamo at Suulajärvi, Finland, May 12th 1944.

Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki “Tojo” interceptors of an Akeno unit being fuelled up before a mission.

Colour photos of Bf-109 E-7s of JG27 in action in Libya in the summer of 1941.

The Phoenixes of Dunkirk- Spitfire P9374 and Hurricane P2902

Fw-190D-9 flown by Luftwaffe ace Josef “Pips” Priller on the 1st January 1945 during Operation Bodenplatte.

Artwork of Ki-61 ace Susumu Kanjinami of the 68th Sentai shooting down a B-25 of the 348th Bombardment Group on 22nd…

A collection of G4M bombers showing the different markings the type wore from 1941-45.

A colourised photo of pilots of the American Volunteer Group (AVG aka The Flying Tigers) running to their P-40…

Romanian I.A.R.

Junkers Ju-87Ds starting their engines on the Eastern Front, Spring/Summer 1943.

An interesting find I just came across…

Aircraft of the Italian Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, who fought for the Axis after the 1943 armistice.

Hungarian pilot getting into his Bf-109F.

Slovak Bf-109E with a Ju-52 in the distance.

A selection of five aircraft used by Japan’s Special Attack Corps (Tokobetsu Kogekitai aka Kamakaze).

S.E.5a fighters of 85 Squadron, RAF, in 1918.

Artwork of a typical day for American Kittyhawk pilots based in North Africa in the Spring of 1943, hunting German…

A typical Bf-109K-4, abandoned like so many at the end of the war.

A captured Spitfire Mark Vb in Luftwaffe markings retrofitted with a Daimler-Benz DB605, aka the Messcherspit.

Bell Airacobra Mark I (aka a P-400) in use with 601 Squadron RAF at Duxford in 1941.

WW2 aircraft that were either captured or supplied to other nations.

Groundcrew rearming Spitfires during the Battle of Britain.

A series of interesting (and often humorous) fact files on famous WW2 aircraft from www.fritzthefox.com

A colourised photograph of a D4Y3 of the 701st Kokutai flown by Yoshnori Yamaguchi moments before it crashed into…

The evolution of markings on the Spitfire.

P-39 “Kobra” flown by Soviet ace Rechkalov in the summer of 1944.

Different Mikoyan-Gueverich MiG-21 “Fishbed” markings.

Aircraft of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force(航空自衛隊) and helicopters of the Japan Ground Self Defence Force (陸上自衛隊)

From a German fighter Ace: