Aircraft Gallery 1: Mixed high resolution Aircraft photos
F4U-1D Corsair about to be catapulted from the USS Block Island. Note the harness attaching the plane to the catapult shuttle.A P-51D hoisted onto, or off of a CVEA nice high resolution shot of the 5000th P-38 built, this one a nice P-38J. This plane would later be repainted and shipped off to the frontA P-38H-5-LO being used to test the aircraft’s feasibility as a fighter bomber, huge image. A very nice color version can be found in Warren Bodie’s Book, The Lockheed P-38 Lighting, pretty much the best book on the aircraftA series of photos of partially disassembled P-38s being moved through an English town.A series of photos of partially disassembled P-38s being moved through an English town.A series of photos of partially disassembled P-38s being moved through an English town.A early P-38, maybe an F or G, probably in North Africa, named ‘Sad Sack’Colonel Charles McDonald, and his P-38L name Putt Putt Maru. This man commanded the 475th Fighter Group, the only all P-38 fighter groupCharles Lindbergh with Tommy McGuire, the second highest scoring US Ace at 38 kills. He would be killed a few months after this photo was taken. These two men flew several combat missions together, even though Lindbergh was a civilian.A P-38 having it’s guns tested at night. I saw this photo as a kid, and it stuck with me for years, and I still have the old Aero P-38 book the photo was in. This image is much higher qaulity thoughFour P-38s, early models, probably G or H models, in the Pacific. Due to shortages of everything in the Pacific, early model P-38s saw longer life than they would in other theatres, and they would do anything within reason to keep a P-38 in the airA huge photo of a very icy P-38, either somewhere in Alaska like Dutch Harbor, or in Greenland probably an E or F modelA beautiful, huge photo of an P-38H-5-LO, over California, probably on a acceptance test flight. This one has a pair of 165 gallon drop tanks late summer 1943The same P-38H-5-LO from the last photo, slightly different angle, over the mountains near LAAn P-38F named Japanese Sandman IIMarine F4F-4s over Guadalcanal late 1942Captured A6M Zero fighter from belowA B-25J with some odd writing on it.A famous three shot sequence of one B-17 dropping its bombs, and knocking the vertical stabilizer of another B-17A famous three shot sequence of one B-17 dropping its bombs, and knocking the vertical stabilizer of another B-17A famous three shot sequence of one B-17 dropping its bombs, and knocking the vertical stabilizer of another B-17A B-24 H or J about to blow upBoeing B-17F radar bombing through clouds over Bremen, Germany, on Nov. 13, 1943. An A-26 Invader dropping some bombsP-47Ds 73rd FS 318th FG 7th AF being ferried to Saipan on USS Manila Bay CVE-61. Attacked during refueling operations east of Saipan (appx 15.00, 147.00) by four Aichi Val dive bombers.A photo taken from one B-17, of another in heavy flack on their bomb run. The one we can see is a B-17GA P-61 Black Widow night fighterB-17 doing what B-17 didThis may be the coolest war time shot of a B-17G I’ve ever seen. Those are probably the Alps in the background
