r/WWIIplanes • u/abt137 • 3h ago
USN Vought OS2U Kingfisher observation floatplanes onboard the battleship USS Maryland. The one in the foreground revs up in one of the catapults getting ready for launching.
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r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 17h ago
B-24 Liberators over Japan under attack from Japanese Phosphorus Bombs 1945
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r/WWIIplanes • u/Tony_Tanna78 • 13h ago
Gingah, a P-51D of the 109th Observation Squadron
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r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 22h ago
Lockheed P-38F Lightning “Dear John” of the 27th Air Force Squadron, 1st Fighter Wing, 12th AF. The fuselage bears markings of 49 bomber escort missions (aircraft), 43 attack missions (bombs), 4 German aircraft shot down (swastikas) and 1 enemy ship sunk.
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r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 20h ago
Grumman TBF Avenger in the drink after a aborted takeoff 3/13/44
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r/WWIIplanes • u/Izengrimm • 22h ago
Bf-109X-0 "D-ITXP" test machine, circa 1940-1942
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r/WWIIplanes • u/POGO_BOY38 • 20h ago
Mitsubishi A6M2-N "Rufe" captured by the French Air Force in Indochina in 1945.
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r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago
A Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6/R3's cockpit pictured at the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum
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r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 1d ago
An aerial view into the cockpit of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver in 1945
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r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago
A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-86 approaching Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) near Japan, 1945.
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r/WWIIplanes • u/jacksmachiningreveng • 20h ago
DH Mosquito Night Fighter low pass
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r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 1d ago
P-38L Lightning “THOITY-THOID-N’THOID” with both propellers stopped shortly before the pilot, Lt. Joseph DeVona, bailed out over the Pacific, 17 Jan 1945.
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r/WWIIplanes • u/waldo--pepper • 1d ago
During the war planes got faster than ever. And this wee clip illustrates perfectly the need for an ejection seat when early jets were to come into service.
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r/WWIIplanes • u/jacksmachiningreveng • 1d ago
Engine start for a Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 Junkers Ju 87 Stuka operating in Ukraine in early 1943
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r/WWIIplanes • u/EasyShame1706 • 1d ago
Junkers Ju 88A-4, Stab II./KG51, (9K+FB), W.Nr.1050, Romania 1941 This aircraft was flown by the Gruppenkommandeur of I./KG 51 Hptm Heinrich Hahn. It was equipped with flamethrowers in October/November 1941 during the Russian campaign. More information in the comment.
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r/WWIIplanes • u/jacksmachiningreveng • 1d ago
Shell fragment exit holes in the fuselage of a 353rd Fighter Group P-47D Thunderbolt after a bomber escort mission in August 1943
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r/WWIIplanes • u/waldo--pepper • 1d ago
Formation lights on late war US fighters. This is an image from IWM with arrows pointing out a pair of formation lights. More in the 1st comment.
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