B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator and a P51 Mustang2 Hawker Hurricanes and 5 Supermarine Spitfires of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at Duxford airshow, May 2007Messerschmitt Me-262Avro Lancasters of No 57 Squadron, Royal Air Force, lined up in the dusk at Scampton, Lincolnshire, before an operation.Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft from World War II come together over Lincolnshire, for the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association Day event held at RAF Coningsby.A dramatic ending of a BF-109Douglas A-20 HavocClose up of the nose of a PBY Catalina (Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, 1942)Junkers Ju 52, nicknamed “Auntie Ju”Curtiss Helldivers somewhere over the PacificHalifax BomberThe legendary Don Bullock was well known for his low level flying… in particular in B- 17s.Seven SBD Dauntless dive-bombers in flight, circa 1942Oberleutnant Fischer of 7 JG 27 survived this forced landing in Windsor Great Park on September 30 1940 after losing out to RAF fighters.P-38 machine gun firing test. 50 caliber machine guns firing with every 5th shell a tracer in 3 second bursts.Hellcat back in Hawaii all patched up from Japanese machine gun fire…The Short Stirling was the first four-engined British heavy bomber of the Second World War. The Stirling was designed and built by Short Brothers to an Air Ministry specification from 1936, and entered service in 1941.B-29 Dauntless Dotty, flown by LTC Robert K. Morgan lead the first B-29 raids over Tokyo.DauntlessMartin PBM MarinersHelldiver waveoff, USS Bunker Hill, CaribbeanHelldivers of VB-87Avenger of Ens. R.J. Bye, USS EnterpriseDauntless v houseCorsair, VF-17, Bunker Hill 1943CorsairCorsair, VF-17, USS Bunker Hill 1943Corsairs off USS HancockCorsairs, VF-12C-47 over the Pyramids, 1943.‘The Black Sheep’ SqnB-26B-17 and MustangB-17 v airfieldDamaged Avenger- the pilot would make it to safetyA-20’sP-47’sDauntlessP-38KingfisherB-25B-17Through flak and over the destruction created by preceding waves of bombers, these 15th Air Force B-24s leave Ploesti, Rumania, after one of the long series of attacks against the No. 1 oil target in Europe..A B-24 flying over a burning oil refinery at Ploesti, Rumania, 1 August 1943.B-25s over Mount Vesuvius,Italy March 23, 1944Ash is swept off the wings of an American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber of the 340th Bombardment Group on March 23, 1944 after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.B-25 covered in ash from VesuviusAvenger ditchingP-38B-17s
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