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Hellcat Tails Flaming Zeke

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Wings of Freedom Tour Visits New Orleans

The Wings of Freedom Tour visits New Orleans with vintage aircraft including P-51 Mustang, Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft”, and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine”. The Collings Foundation’s Wings of Freedom Tour will be at Lakefront Airport from March … Continue reading

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PBY Catalina Anchor

Crew instructions for use of the anchor on the Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat from Pilot’s Handbook of Flight Operating Instructions, Navy Model PBY-5A Airplanes, U.S. Army Air Forces, August 1945. ANCHOR. (1) TO CAST ANCHOR.   (a) Fit float … Continue reading

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War Record of the SBD

The story of the SBD Dauntless dive bomber in the Pacific from Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, (“All Hands Magazine”), September 1944. War Record of the SBD Dauntless Divebomber, Giving Way to Harder-Hitting Successor, Was Spearhead of Our Attacks … Continue reading

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Retro-Camouflage

An E/A-6B Prowler and E/A-18G Growler of Electronic Attack Squadron VAQ 129 photographed at NAS North Island near San Diego. The aircraft are painted in three-tone camouflage paint schemes honoring U.S. Navy combat aircraft that fought in the Battle of the … Continue reading

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Jeep Tows a Glider

A jeep provides a tow for a U.S. Marine glider at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. in May 1942. (Library of Congress, fsac.1a35111.)  

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Give Us More P-38’s

A U.S. Army WWII poster depicting the P-38 Lightning fighter in action against Japanese Zeros in the Pacific.

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Sound of the Japanese Zero

The authentic sound of a Japanese A6M5 Zero with a fully-restored original Mitsubishi Sakae radial engine. This particular Zero was built by Nakajima in 1943, captured by U.S. forces on Saipan in June 1944, shipped to the U.S. for evaluation, sold … Continue reading

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Idiots’ Delight

Color photograph of the B-17 Flying Fortress “Idiots’ Delight” of Eighth Air Force in England. The original caption states the M/Sgt is Penrose A. Bingham of Reading, Pennsylvania. The B-17 “Idiots’ Delight” served with the 332nd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb … Continue reading

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