Photos of WWII aircraft

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[virgil283]

...Bastogne supply drop...B-25 v Jap ship..Weighing down wing to stop Hellcat flipping.....USN ...Prewar phosphorous bomb tests...Wildcat F4 !!!!...B-26 from 20 feet away...Dauntless 1944...Corsair rockets {note the mud]...Fleet manoevures prewar 1941...B-26's over Cherbourg...Helldivers over Hornet, 1945...P-38's over Aleutians....Helldiver Driver...{H/T aceofspades}

[Fightin Whitey]

Unless it’s a doob in which case he’s probably not only legal, he’s a protected species.

Sheesh. Look at any photograph more than thirty years old and you can see how this country has shrunk in stature even as it has grown fat, sloppy and unmanageable.

[jmacusa]

The B-26 Martin Marauder or "The Widow Maker'' for it's being a difficult plane to control.

[Cheapskate]

My mom worked on the lines building those suckers.

[rabidralph]

Wow! Very cool! I hear those car factories turned from building cars to turning out airplanes in a matter of days.

[jmacusa]

God Bless her.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks, I spent Christmas afternoon looking at them. Cool.

[rmlew]

Grumman F4F-3>
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/f-types/f4f.htm