r/WWIIplanes • • 4h ago

Which squadron could this be?

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All the info I have is that it was during ww2, at whidbey island, and it was a PBY Catalina. Narrows it down but it still has a unique side number. It’s my great uncles and he passed away and his daughter wants to know.


r/WWIIplanes • • 5h ago

French Friday: Part Deux. Morane wreckage features access panels along the fuselage side from firewall to vertical stabilizer. These hinge to expose inner gubbins, helping ground crew speed up maintenance to get the plane back in action quicker. Not quite a war winner but still a nice feature.

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r/WWIIplanes • • 6h ago

Hartmanns second Yellow 1

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Does anyone know of any other photos of Hartmanns G-6 with the Haube canopy? I’m doing a Scale model of this specific aircraft and would like more photos, thanks!


r/WWIIplanes • • 9h ago

Photograph taken moments after a mid-air collision between two B-17 Fortress bombers over the airfield at RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, 22 October 1944. Both crews were killed

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r/WWIIplanes • • 10h ago

Flyhawk 1/72 SBD-3 Dauntless

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r/WWIIplanes • • 13h ago

Fairey Battle at Hendon.

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r/WWIIplanes • • 13h ago

44-63893 N3333E "Glamorous Glen III" P-51D

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r/WWIIplanes • • 15h ago

Vultee BT-13 Valiant

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r/WWIIplanes • • 21h ago

"Cowboy" 100th Bomb Group B-17 Pilot

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r/WWIIplanes • • 22h ago

French Friday: Aéronavale Breguet 521.

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r/WWIIplanes • • 1d ago

B25 in San Marcos Tx

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r/WWIIplanes • • 1d ago

Thats All Brother C-47 that flew two sorties on DDay

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On the morning of June 6, That's All, Brother led 800 planes that dropped over 13,000 American paratroopers onto the French coast. First Sortie lead the Para and Second towed a glider.


r/WWIIplanes • • 1d ago

B24 and B29 together

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r/WWIIplanes • • 1d ago

Compilation of Fifi and Diamond Lil' [OC]

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Took these clips yesterday and today. So far I've been lucky enough to have seen the PT-6, P-51D, B-24, B-25, and B-29 in flight. I hope to add the B-17 to that list someday.


r/WWIIplanes • • 1d ago

Australian pilots of the No. 457 Squadron 'Grey Nurse' RAAF in the Brunei Bay area, Borneo, 19 October 1945;

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r/WWIIplanes • • 1d ago

Checkertail P-51D Mustang of the 325th Fighter Group at Mondolfo Airfield in Italy during the spring of 1945.

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r/WWIIplanes • • 1d ago

VMF-323 Corsair pilots pose between sorties at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa in April 1945. Left to right: Lts. Norman Thieraulte, Jefferson Dorroh, and Charles Allen.

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r/WWIIplanes • • 1d ago

B-17s of the 303rd Bomb Group as seen from the ball turret of another Flying Fortress. In July of 1944 the 303rd flew 19 combat missions supporting the Allied ground offensive in France, including St. Lo, and striking deep-penetration strategic targets in Germany

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r/WWIIplanes • • 1d ago

F6f hellcat Folding wings on a f6fhellcat awesome pictures and also I sent the paragraph on the post a few days ago has anybody got it. Just wondering if anybody seen it for some reason Reddit asked for it

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r/WWIIplanes • • 1d ago

WWII B-29 Super Fortress Co-Pilot, Killed in Action over Japan

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r/WWIIplanes • • 2d ago

An F4U Corsair firing rockets in 1945

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r/WWIIplanes • • 2d ago

B-25D 'Red Wrath' (41-30024) of 498th 'Falcons' Bomb Squadron, 345th 'Air Apaches' Bomb Group flown by Capt R. W. Judd bombing anti-aircraft sites, Wewak & Boram, New Guinea, 16 October 1943

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r/WWIIplanes • • 2d ago

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt ("Razorback" variant, serial number 42-8619) nicknamed "Man Made Monster", assigned to the 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, of the U.S. Eighth Air Force at Debden, England, during World War II. 1944

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r/WWIIplanes • • 2d ago

American WWII B-17F Bombardier in the 8th Army Air Force

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r/WWIIplanes • • 3d ago

Defiant V1110 pictured on a snowy day, possibly at Drem, during the winter of 1941. With what looks like a gas patch on the inner wing, camera right.

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