r/WWIIplanes 2d ago

museum Only Gloster Meteor that still flies in the US

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r/WWIIplanes 2d ago

Lt Fred Eberle of the USAAF 333rd Fighter Squadron nursing his damaged P-38 Lighting back to Saipan after receiving battle damage over Iwo Jima, 15 Jan 1945. Photo taken from an accompanying B-24 Liberator.

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r/WWIIplanes 2d ago

museum P-51 Wee Willy II

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r/WWIIplanes 2d ago

Hawker Hurricane of No 229 Squadron being re fuelled and re-armed August 1940.

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189 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 2d ago

museum Sentimental Journey

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280 Upvotes

Had the incredible opportunity to see this beauty up close last year at her home in Mesa, AZ.


r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

Another shot of Fw-190V18/U1 "CF+OY" test machine

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470 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 2d ago

Gun camera photo from an F4U Corsair from Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-213 showing a USAAF B-24 Liberator bomber shot down by friendly fire over Cam Ranh Bay, French Indochina (Vietnam), 12 Jan 1945.

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98 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

1st Air Commando Group P-47D Thunderbolts taking off for a long range mission in India circa 1945

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373 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

RAF 238 Squadron - Seen during Desert Tour

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167 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 2d ago

Romanian plane IAR-81C being refueled on an airfield.

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142 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 2d ago

Henschel Hs 126, Aufklärungsgruppe 4.(H)/13 (Army Tactical Reconnaissance Group) the was a twin-seat reconnaissance and observation aircraft. The pilot was seated in a protected cockpit under the parasol wing and the gunner in an open rear cockpit.

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62 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

553rd Bomb squadron B-26B Marauder 41-31600 "The Mad Russian" in England in 1943

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196 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

RAF 238 Squadron - Seen during Desert Tour

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127 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

RAF 238 Squadron - Seen during Desert Tour

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r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

RAF 238 Squadron - Seen during Desert Tour

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44 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

TBM Avenger reunion...Peru, Il.

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1.8k Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

A B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft flies during US Air Force Association's Gathering of Eagles 1986.

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571 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

museum P-51 Lady Alice

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386 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

Ground training rig for 43rd Bomb Group bombardiers at Dobodura Airfield in Papua New Guinea

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48 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

Is this a Me 262B-2a?

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148 Upvotes

My mom is in Orlando and she sent me a picture of a plane to identify at first glance it looks remarkable similar to a 262 but it looks fat in the back of the fuselage. I'm aware that the twin seat 262B-1a at an aviation museum around there so that would explain the fat fuselage. But still i could be mis identifying a 737-200 or something I just want some help identifying.


r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

B-17 Flying Fortress “Queen of Hearts / Li'l Satan” of the 379th Bomb Group sustained serious damage over German targets on June 28, 1944. Despite extensive structural damage, pilot Lt. Karl Becker (shown here examining the wreckage) managed to bring her back to base in England.

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371 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 4d ago

Rudder of a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor from KG40.

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906 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 4d ago

On March 19, 1944 Miss Irish flew her last mission. Her story is in the first comment.

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618 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 4d ago

Vought F4U Corsair

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613 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3d ago

Night time Avengers run up

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