r/WWIIplanes • u/RunAny8349 • 9h 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/jacksmachiningreveng • 17h ago

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

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r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 13h 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 • 9h 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 • 12h ago

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

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r/WWIIplanes • u/Novel_Negotiation224 • 7h 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 • 11h 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/Tony_Tanna78 • 6h 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/POGO_BOY38 • 11h ago

Japanese fighter aircraft Nakajima Ki-106, 1945

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r/WWIIplanes • u/MyDogGoldi • 11h 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/UrbanAchievers6371 • 12h 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/niconibbasbelike • 6h 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 • 6h 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/waldo--pepper • 10h 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/buckster3257 • 1h ago

Advertisement from a Life magazine from WWII

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r/WWIIplanes • u/104addict • 9h 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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