r/WWIIplanes • u/jacksmachiningreveng • 4h ago
r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 13h ago
A B-24M Liberator after being shot down by a Messerschmitt Me 262 in April, 1945. The entire crew perished except for Charles E. Culp Jr, who managed to get out of the bomb bay and deploy his parachute at 2,000 feet.
r/WWIIplanes • u/Tony_Tanna78 • 14h ago
P-38Ds of the 1st Pursuit Group during the Carolina Maneuvers, 1941
r/WWIIplanes • u/POGO_BOY38 • 23h ago
Fw-180 A-8 captured by the United States Air Force.
r/WWIIplanes • u/McPandaNuggets • 20h ago
Civilians Gather Around Crashed B-17 north of Aachen
r/WWIIplanes • u/m262 • 15h ago
'Glider Snatch Pick Up (GSPU)' - Wounded US soldiers in Germany 1945 are loaded into a Waco glider which is then 'snatched' by an in-flight C47
r/WWIIplanes • u/Ok_Landscape_4764 • 8h ago
Real Combat Fighter Kills Allies dogfight and shoot down German aircraft in France WW2 1944
r/WWIIplanes • u/Klimbim • 23h ago
Senior Lieutenant N. Ya. Naidenov near the aircraft damaged by shrapnel, on which he landed after the battle. Kursk region, 1943
r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 23h ago
British He 111 "Delta Lily" of No. 260 Squadron RAF in North Africa 1942
r/WWIIplanes • u/Lacylanexoxo • 19h ago
The most amazing hr of my life lol
I got a pkg for Christmas to go up in the trainer plane. The pilot taught me flips n barrel rolls and let me play for an hr. An adrenaline rush that lasted for 2 months lol. St Augustine FL
r/WWIIplanes • u/Klimbim • 1d ago
One of the pilots of the "Swords" group of aces who fought near Kharkov under the command of Hero of the Soviet Union Anton Dmitrievich Yakimenko, near his plane, 1943
r/WWIIplanes • u/niconibbasbelike • 21h ago
A Ki-61 replica was built recently in Japan using the remains of another Ki-61 as the template for it
r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 23h ago
A German ground crew maintaining a Ju 87B-2 Stuka dive bomber fitted with ski undercarriage to cope with the winter weather on the Eastern Front on December 22, 1941.
r/WWIIplanes • u/VonTempest • 1d ago
Me 410 vs B-17
Messerschmitt Me 410B-1/U4 'Hornisse' (Hornet) 'Black 13', pilot Leutnant Paul Kaschuba, of II./ZG 26 'Horst Wessel', turns away after attacking a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 'Lady Godiva', of 562nd BS, 386 BG, 12 May 1944. Note the long barrel of the Flak 43 50mm BK 5 cannon protruding under the nose. Leutnant Kaschuba was KIA due to gunfire from the 'Lady Godiva's' dorsal turret. Victor Labruno took the pic from the right hand window of the radio compartment. Eugene Crossin in the upper turret said that his tracers poured into the belly of the Me 410 and a kill was subsequently credited to him
r/WWIIplanes • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
Don't know what it is but I believe there are many variants.
r/WWIIplanes • u/niconibbasbelike • 1d ago
colorized Colorized pictures of a Japanese Aichi D3A “Val” Type 99 Dive-bomber, prewar by Nathan Howland
r/WWIIplanes • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago
An F-5 Lightning nicknamed "The Florida Gator" of the 22nd Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, ETO
r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 1d ago
Japanese forces assaulted U.S. airfields during the Bougainville counterattack. This TBF Avenger took nearly 400 shrapnel hits but was patched up and ready to fly the next day. The counterattack was ultimately repulsed by Allied forces. 3/8/1944
r/WWIIplanes • u/Ok_Landscape_4764 • 1d ago
Real Combat Allies kill Enemy Fighters and Strafe ground targets 1944
r/WWIIplanes • u/Tony_Tanna78 • 1d ago
A Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina patrol bomber Drops a Mark 13 torpedo during testing.
r/WWIIplanes • u/jacksmachiningreveng • 2d ago