Category Archives: aircraft

The Artillery Jeep Plane

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

From “Combat Lessons” No. 4 comes this tribute to the U.S. artillery spotter planes in World War II: The Artillery “Jeep Plane” Colonel Russell P. Reeder, Infantry Regimental Commander, Normandy. “When our division commander asked us what we wanted our … Continue reading →

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Ohka Schematic

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Schematic of the Baka rocket-propelled piloted aircraft bomb from the U.S. Navy Technical Air Intelligence Center: See Also: Baka… Flying Warhead  

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SB2C Helldiver Recovered from California Lake

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Divers and salvage crews have successfully raised a WW2 SB2C Helldiver dive bomber from the bottom of a California lake where it crashed in 1945. Now that the plane is free from the mud on the lake bottom, the salvage … Continue reading →

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Grumman at War

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Grumman Aircraft color film about the design, testing, manufacturing, and combat record of the Grumman F6F Hellcat carrier-based fighter. Collection: UNT Digital Library.    

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P-38 Flight Characteristics

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

WWII color training film produced by Lockheed describing the P-38 Lightning. The film shows operating characteristics of the P-38, demonstrates techniques for takeoff, landing, and combat flying, and shows operating controls and procedures.    

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Bailing Out of a P-38 Lightning

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

From the “Pilot Training Manual for the P-38 Lightning”:     BAILOUT Many stories have been circulated that you can’t successfully bail out of the P-38. Rumor had it that you wouldn’t have a chance of missing the horizontal stabilizer, … Continue reading →

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Flak Traps

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Beware of Flak Traps! Ninth Air Force (IX Tactical Air Command) training poster:  

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B-24D Liberator “Sherazade”

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Pilot and crew in front of the B-24 Liberator “Sherazade” of the 425th Bomb Squadron, 308th Bomb Group, Fourteenth Air Force in China in WWII. The bomber markings list ten missions with three Japanese fighters shot down and one boat … Continue reading →

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B-24 Liberator “Sabu”

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Elaborate nose art of a flying boxcar on an unknown B-24 Liberator:  

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B-17 “Man O War II”

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

B-17 “Man O War II Horsepower Ltd.” of the 322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomb Group. “Man O War II” flew numerous missions with the 91st for nine months before being lost in November 1944 in a mission over over Merseburg. … Continue reading →

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