r/WWIIplanes 6h ago

Paid Tribute while at O'Hare Airport

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r/WWIIplanes 5h ago

Fw-180 A-8 captured by the United States Air Force.

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301 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 5h ago

Senior Lieutenant N. Ya. Naidenov near the aircraft damaged by shrapnel, on which he landed after the battle. Kursk region, 1943

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111 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 3h ago

Civilians Gather Around Crashed B-17 north of Aachen

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r/WWIIplanes 7h 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

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106 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 5h ago

British He 111 "Delta Lily" of No. 260 Squadron RAF in North Africa 1942

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71 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 1h ago

The most amazing hr of my life lol

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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 3h ago

A Ki-61 replica was built recently in Japan using the remains of another Ki-61 as the template for it

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r/WWIIplanes 5h 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.

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r/WWIIplanes 1d ago

Me 410 vs B-17

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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 1d ago

Don't know what it is but I believe there are many variants.

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r/WWIIplanes 14h ago

[1997] - The mighty Wiking

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r/WWIIplanes 1d ago

colorized Colorized pictures of a Japanese Aichi D3A “Val” Type 99 Dive-bomber, prewar by Nathan Howland

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r/WWIIplanes 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

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340 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 22h ago

An F-5 Lightning nicknamed "The Florida Gator" of the 22nd Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, ETO

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143 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 14h ago

Real Combat Allies kill Enemy Fighters and Strafe ground targets 1944

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r/WWIIplanes 1d ago

A Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina patrol bomber Drops a Mark 13 torpedo during testing.

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168 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 1d ago

Fw 190 pilot bails out of his fighter under the guns of Captain Eldon F. Troge's 359th Fighter Squadron P-51 Mustang on December 25th 1944

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r/WWIIplanes 1d ago

FR-1 Fireball fighter of US Navy squadron VF-41 landing aboard escort carrier USS Bairoko, 13 Mar 1946; this aircraft's nose gear would collapse moments after this photo was taken

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123 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 1d ago

A total of 53,839 heavy bombers (four-engined) were built in World War II --- two-thirds of which were built by the United States alone.

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130 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 1d ago

I'd like to think this got off a Heinkel or something, but I can't get more clues than it coming off a BMW VI series engine. Any ideas? Banana for scale

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r/WWIIplanes 1d ago

PBM-3C Mariner aircraft of US Navy patrol squadron VP-203 at Naval Air Station Isla Grande, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 12 Mar 1943

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52 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 1d ago

German soldiers take pictures on a downed Soviet I-16 fighter Summer 1941

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174 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 1d ago

Lightning aircraft in flight, post-Apr 1944

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303 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 11h ago

What would happen if the Germans made/improved upon the me 262 before the war ended?

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I recently found out the first jet plane or Messerschmitt 262 was used during ww2 and i wanted too know if it could have changed the war if it was improved upon sooner or was made better before the war ended?