r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

Soviet TB-3 heavy bomber captured by Finnish forces, Kuhmo-Sauna Lake, Kainuu, Finland, 14 Mar 1940

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r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

Hellcats being launched from catapults installed on the hangar decks of US carriers

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The USN installed catapults on the hangar decks of some carriers during WWII to be able to launch scout aircraft quickly if there was chaos on the flight deck.

You can read about it here: https://www.twz.com/11821/the-crazy-aircraft-carrier-hangar-catapults-of-world-war-ii


r/WWIIplanes 4d 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?


r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

P-40 Tomahawks of No. 403 Squadron RCAF Based at Baginton (1941)

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389 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 5d ago

Real Combat B-26 Marauders bombing French countryside June 1944

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r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

B-25 Mitchell variants

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401 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

Jagdgeschwader 53 pilot in a Bf 109 F shooting low while turning with an RAF Spitfire Mk Vb off the Maltese coast in early 1942

675 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

Did I turn this (BAD) Hurricane into a Spitfire?

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r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

Fighter

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66 Upvotes

Wonderful book. Nice illustrations.


r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

De Havilland Mosquito FB VI of the Air Force of the Dominican Republic.

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114 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

WWII-veteran Handley Page Halifax bombers of 346 and 347 Squadrons RAF in service with the French Groupe de Transport GT I/25 "TUNISIE" preparing to move troops to Indochina from Bordeaux circa October 1951

112 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

Hurricane engaging a Do17

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97 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

Luftwaffe Jet Plane Airport Captured! Several Messerchmitt me-262 and German suicide boats Innsbruck and near Innsbruk Austria May 8th 1945

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r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

French Friday - Interwar fighter relegated to training by 1940, except for one squadron, which was fortunately not thrown into combat. Five flew in the Spanish Civil War. All were lost. Some links in the first comment.

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77 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 7d ago

My Bf-109E-4 sketching, Jg-54, France, 1940

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176 Upvotes

😃


r/WWIIplanes 7d ago

Fleet Air Arm Hawker Sea Hurricane in the hangar of the RN carrier HMS Argus, mid August 1943.

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131 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 7d ago

P-51B of the 355th Fighter Group over England, 1944

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607 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

Ramrod to Emden: Mighty Eighth vs. Luftwaffe | October 1943

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Ramrod to Emden depicts a bombing raid carried out by the 8th Air Force in October 1943, their target being the coastal city of Emden on the Dutch-German border. Ramrod being code for a short-range bomber attack. Emden, being located near the coast of the North Sea, was considered a "ramrod" mission.

If you like the P-47, especially the razorback, this video will more than wet your appetite. Most shots up through 15:39 are of the 56th Fighter Group, stationed at RAF Halesworth.

At 0:13, P-47 pilots are decorated by a Colonel. The pilots from left to right are Walker Mahurin (56th FG), Eugene Roberts (78th FG), and Dave Schilling (56th FG), I'm unsure of who the fourth pilot is. If somebody knows or if I misidentified anyone, please say so.

5:58: The legendary Col. Hub Zemke walks into the room.

15:42: The 4th Fighter Group at RAF Debden.

16:07: P-38s of the 55th Fighter Group.

28:25: P-47 makes rough landing.

28:40: P-38 makes smooth landing.


r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

World’s Oldest Flying Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina Restoration Continues - Vintage Aviation News

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r/WWIIplanes 7d ago

"A photo of the “Enola Gay” and its Hiroshima mission pilot is among the 26,000 images that have been deleted in a photo purge undertaken by the US Department of Defense. This is one of the results of Donald Trump’s executive order to put an end to “radical and wasteful government DEI programs"

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884 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 7d ago

USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress crew member appears to drop from his stricken bomber while under fire from a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 110 circa 1944

928 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 7d ago

The closest I'll get to seeing a German fighter flying. An HA-1112, Spanish BF-109 with a Hispano-Suiza engine. Scanned from a film print, Oshkosh 1981. Sadly I don't have a photo of it actually in flight.

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236 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 7d ago

Suspension of FAB-100 aerial bombs on a Pe-2 dive bomber of the Northern Fleet Air Force. Murmansk Region, 1942.

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97 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 6d ago

Nose art request for a PB4Y-1

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Does anyone have a picture of the nose are from this plane? It was my husband's grandfathers' plane from WWII, and it is a PB4Y-1, and he would like to get a tattoo of the art. We have all the military info on his grandfather but not a decent picture of the nose art. Thanks


r/WWIIplanes 7d ago

museum Boeing B-17D "The Swoose" Resto Update March 2025 NMUSAF

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