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The wreck of a Polish Air Force Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze PZL.37B Los in Poland during 1939.
07/11/2025

The wreck of a Polish Air Force Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze PZL.37B Los in Poland during 1939.

USN Martin PBM-3 Mariner aircraft from VPB-210 being prepared for hoisting aboard seaplane tender Albemarle, Guantanamo ...
07/11/2025

USN Martin PBM-3 Mariner aircraft from VPB-210 being prepared for hoisting aboard seaplane tender Albemarle, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during January 1945.

USAAF Douglas A-20 Havoc light bomber during an attack on an airfield at Lae, New Guinea, during early 1943.
07/11/2025

USAAF Douglas A-20 Havoc light bomber during an attack on an airfield at Lae, New Guinea, during early 1943.

USN Grumman J2F-3 Duck at Naval Air Station Jacksonville during 1940.
07/11/2025

USN Grumman J2F-3 Duck at Naval Air Station Jacksonville during 1940.

Underground production facility for the Luftwaffe Heinkel He-162 jet-powered light fighter during 1945.
07/11/2025

Underground production facility for the Luftwaffe Heinkel He-162 jet-powered light fighter during 1945.

USAAF medics loading a patient into the modified drop tank of a Lockheed F-5B Lightning photo reconnaissance aircraft wh...
07/11/2025

USAAF medics loading a patient into the modified drop tank of a Lockheed F-5B Lightning photo reconnaissance aircraft while practicing high speed medevac operations.

USAAF ground crew preparing a Northrop P-61Black Widow night fighter for a mission in the European Theater.
07/11/2025

USAAF ground crew preparing a Northrop P-61Black Widow night fighter for a mission in the European Theater.

German V2 Vergeltungswaffe ready for launch at Peenemünde, Germany, during 1944. The V2 was the world’s first long-rang...
07/10/2025

German V2 Vergeltungswaffe ready for launch at Peenemünde, Germany, during 1944. The V2 was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. During 2019, I was at a conference in Huntsville, Alabama, with a few NASA scientists. Someone asked their opinion on why the US beat the USSR in the space race. Almost in unison, they said “because we captured better N***s than they did”😳.

B-24D Liberator ‘Superman’ at Funafuti, Gilbert Islands, during April 1943. This was former Olympian Louis Zamperini’s ...
07/10/2025

B-24D Liberator ‘Superman’ at Funafuti, Gilbert Islands, during April 1943. This was former Olympian Louis Zamperini’s assigned aircraft before it was damaged during a mission over Nauro. Zamperini was famously portrayed in the book and film ‘Unbroken’.

The great IJN battleship Yamato under attack by USN Grumman TBM Avengers and Curtiss SB2C Helldivers on April 7, 1945. ...
07/10/2025

The great IJN battleship Yamato under attack by USN Grumman TBM Avengers and Curtiss SB2C Helldivers on April 7, 1945. More than 280 USN aircraft were involved in the attack of Yamato and her escorts. After fighting for almost 4 hours and being hit by at least 6 bombs and 11 torpedoes, Yamato went down with 3,055 of her crew. Her wreck was found in 1982, 180 miles southwest of Kyushu at a depth of 1,180 feet.

Reconnaissance photograph taken by a USAAF Lockheed F-5 Lightning showing the Japanese seaplane base at Kavieng Harbor, ...
07/10/2025

Reconnaissance photograph taken by a USAAF Lockheed F-5 Lightning showing the Japanese seaplane base at Kavieng Harbor, New Ireland, during February 1944. The aircraft in the photo are IJN Mitsubishi F1M2 Type 0 Reconnaissance Seaplanes.

Members of the USAAF 894th Chemical Company mixing na**lm and pumping it into a tank under the wing of a Lockheed P-38J ...
07/10/2025

Members of the USAAF 894th Chemical Company mixing na**lm and pumping it into a tank under the wing of a Lockheed P-38J Lightning of the 8th Fighter Group at Elmore Airfield, Mindoro, Philippines, during April 1945.

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