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Messerschmitt Bf 109

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

 

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The Artillery Jeep Plane

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

From “Combat Lessons” No. 4 comes this tribute to the U.S. artillery spotter planes in World War II: The Artillery “Jeep Plane” Colonel Russell P. Reeder, Infantry Regimental Commander, Normandy. “When our division commander asked us what we wanted our … Continue reading →

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SB2C Helldiver Recovered from California Lake

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Divers and salvage crews have successfully raised a WW2 SB2C Helldiver dive bomber from the bottom of a California lake where it crashed in 1945. Now that the plane is free from the mud on the lake bottom, the salvage … Continue reading →

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Bailing Out of a P-38 Lightning

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

From the “Pilot Training Manual for the P-38 Lightning”:     BAILOUT Many stories have been circulated that you can’t successfully bail out of the P-38. Rumor had it that you wouldn’t have a chance of missing the horizontal stabilizer, … Continue reading →

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B-17 “Man O War II”

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

B-17 “Man O War II Horsepower Ltd.” of the 322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomb Group. “Man O War II” flew numerous missions with the 91st for nine months before being lost in November 1944 in a mission over over Merseburg. … Continue reading →

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1/35th V-1 Models

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Bronco Models has introduced a series of 1/35th scale models of the German Fieseler Fi 103 (German “Vergeltungswaffe 1” or V-1; Allied “Buzz Bomb” or “Doodlebug”) pulse-jet powered missile. Piloted variants of the Fieseler Fi 103, known as “Reichenbergs”, were also manufactures but … Continue reading →

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Eighth Air Force: Stars over the Reich

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

  In January 1945, Army Talks published a special edition “Stars over the Reich” for the men of the Eighth Air Force. With a forward by commander Lt. General James H. Doolittle, the special edition told the story of the … Continue reading →

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