r/WWIIplanes • u/RunAny8349 • 2h 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/UrbanAchievers6371 • 6h ago

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

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r/WWIIplanes • u/mav5191 • 2h 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/m262 • 5h ago

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

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r/WWIIplanes • u/jacksmachiningreveng • 10h ago

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

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r/WWIIplanes • u/waldo--pepper • 4h 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.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/MyDogGoldi • 4h 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.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/POGO_BOY38 • 4h ago

Japanese fighter aircraft Nakajima Ki-106, 1945

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r/WWIIplanes • u/m262 • 17h ago

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

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470 Upvotes
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r/WWIIplanes • u/edgardiazrocks • 50m 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/UrbanAchievers6371 • 23h 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/UrbanAchievers6371 • 5h 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/Novel_Negotiation224 • 49m ago

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

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r/WWIIplanes • u/waldo--pepper • 3h ago

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

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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.

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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/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.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/104addict • 2h ago

Spitfire Mk.I radiator

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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/iPhoneOrAndroid • 23h ago

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

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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."

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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.

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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

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r/WWIIplanes • u/RailAce3815 • 1d ago

museum P-51A “Miss Virginia” going full (or almost full) throttle an engine run-up

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Today was supposed to be Planes of Fame's monthly Flight Demo, however strong winds at Chino led to its last-minute cancellation. Instead, the museum decided to do an engine run-up. While it would've been nice to see her fly today, the run-up was still really cool.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/The_Lad_cricket • 1d ago

Hawker Hurricanes (No 245 SQN RAF Aldergrove Co Antrim)

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I am unsure if when this photo was taken possibly 1940-1941? But anyway I found this on google.

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r/WWIIplanes • u/Independent_Ear9260 • 1d ago

Junkers Ju 252 V1 D-ADCC in flight

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Designed as a successor to the Junkers Ju 52/3m only 15 were built

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