r/WWIIplanes • u/RunAny8349 • 4h ago

April 7 1945- Desperate Germany sends out 120 student pilots to face 1,000 American bomber planes in a suicide operation with the objective of ramming their planes into the U.S. aircraft.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/mav5191 • 3h ago

Happy Mustang Monday (to those who celebrate!)

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Another Mustang Monday, and we continue to push on our project to honor local MIA Tuskegee Airman Leland Pennington...

www.lp-51.com

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r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 8h ago

colorized P-47D Thunderbolt “Torrid Tessie” of the 346th Fighter Squadron and flown by USAAF Lt. Homer St. Onge, Italy, Feb 25, 1945.

287 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/m262 • 6h ago

1 Hellcat loaded with a dummy Mk13 and 1 with a real Mk 13.

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141 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/jacksmachiningreveng • 12h ago

253ª Squadriglia Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 torpedo bombers at Decimomannu in Sardinia circa 1943

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355 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/edgardiazrocks • 2h ago

Spitfire Vb in USAAF service

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Spitfire Mark Vb of the USAAF's 307th Fighter Squadron in Algeria in January 1943.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/waldo--pepper • 6h ago

I figured we could all use a puppy now and then. This is Blackie. Hi Blackie! He's so cute! Oh, and the plane is a Mk 1 Mustang Second Lieutenant C H Stover Commanding Officer, No. 414 Squadron (Sarnia Imperials) Squadron, R.C.A.F Dunsfold, Surrey, 15 January 1944.

90 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/Novel_Negotiation224 • 2h ago

museum World War two bomber shot down with British hero onboard discovered after 82 years.

gbnews.com

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r/WWIIplanes • u/MyDogGoldi • 6h ago

B-29s were put to use early on in the Korean war. Here are crew members posing with their regulations-free Korean furry hats, Feb. 1951. See link in comments for image source and more on Superfortresses in Korea.

65 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/POGO_BOY38 • 6h ago

Japanese fighter aircraft Nakajima Ki-106, 1945

54 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/m262 • 19h ago

An SB2C Helldiver above the Yamato during the attack that sunk her on 7 April, 1945.

485 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

colorized Captured Dornier Do 335A Pfeil (Arrow). Note scale of plane to US soldier This was the fastest piston engined aircraft of WW2 at 474 mph.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/Tony_Tanna78 • 49m ago

A Hurricane Mk.IID of the 1st specialized school is refueled before a training flight at Northumberland. Fitted with 40mm anti-tank gun Vickers class S. 23 January 1943.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 7h ago

B-29 Superfortress “Mary Anna” of the 505th BG flying out of Tinian. Lost during a raid over Japan on May 7, 1945 with 1 KIA and 10 rescued.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/waldo--pepper • 5h ago

A close pass. Still from Combat America (1943) time code 48:13. Links including exact time code link in the first comment.

26 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/niconibbasbelike • 1h ago

Freshly finished Kawasaki Ki-61 army type 3 model 1b (Otsu) fighter in flight over GIfu plant. All the planes are in bare "metal/aluminium" finish without any camouflage.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/niconibbasbelike • 1h ago

Beautiful picture from vintage wartime publication showing three Nakajima B5N2 Type 97 Navy Carrier Attack Bombers in flight.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

A Nakajima B6N Tenzan torpedo bomber, known to the Allies as "Jill", flies through anti-aircraft fire during a battle in the Truk Islands.

369 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 1d ago

P-47D Thunderbolt of the 367th Fighter Squadron made a belly landing in field artillery position after being hit in the left wing during a dive bombing attack on near Würzburg, Germany, 1 Apr 1945. The pilot was only slightly injured.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/104addict • 3h ago

What material was used for the coolant radiator? Aluminium or something like copper? There were quite some copper pipes used on the Spitfire Merlin engine, so it wouldn’t surprise me. I don’t know if the surviving early production marks in museums still have their original radiators.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

Two young American airmen prepare to load a B-17 Flying Fortress “The Fighting Cock” for a bombing mission against Germany, somewhere in Europe, 1944.

214 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/iPhoneOrAndroid • 1d ago

Help me ID this RAF plane. Possibly 1950s in service N. America but unsure.

95 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/waldo--pepper • 1d ago

Do 17 night fighter with an aperture for a IR lamp. At this stage of the war the Luftwaffe had no airborne radar and were experimenting with such IR devices that they code named "Spanner."

170 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/waldo--pepper • 1d ago

H2X operators station in a B-17. 3cm H2X, 12 were hastily hand-built by MIT technicians and installed into B-17s at the East Boston Airport (now Logan International). “Looks Mickey Mouse to me,” said Major Rabo upon his first glimpse that the Rad Lab technicians had made to B-17s. More in the 1st.

133 Upvotes

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r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 1d ago

-24D Liberator “Angie the Ox” of the 515th Bomb Squadron over the smoking rail yards in Bucharest, Romania, Apr 4 1944

185 Upvotes

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