Photo of the week
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This midweeks photo.
And a sensational shot of an F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron VF 2 pictured on the catapult on board the carrier USS Hornet 1944
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This weekends photo.
Just a wonderful shot taken from "Vultures Row" of an early Curtiss SB2C-1
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This weekends extra.
And a cool shot of a PE-2 at "Vaenga" airfield, Murmansk region, USSR, 1942
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This midweeks photo.
And a nice original colour photo of Lockheed P-38 Lightnings of the 449th Fighter Squadron on the ground at Chengking, China, January 1945.
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This weekends photo.
The last Ta 152 in existence, is a pre-production Ta 152 H-0 model. For many years it was described (wrongly) as Werk Number 150003. It is now thought to be W.Nr.150010. It was originally used for testing at Rechlin where it was coded CW+CJ. It was then transferred to the operational Luftwaffe unit JG301 where it became ‘Yellow 4’ with II/JG301 and the Yellow/Red RGV bands were painted on its aft fuselage. It ended up with the staff flight (Geschwader Stab) of JG301 where it was coded ‘Green 4’, and the green bar was painted over the RGV bands. It was flown operationally by Ofw Walter Loos in 1945. The plane was captured by the British in Denmark in 1945 and handed over to the Americans who took it back to the USA for evaluation. Below taken at Wright Airfield in 1945.She is currently stored at the National Air and Space Museum
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This weekends extra.
And a couple of detailed shots of Avro Lancaster B.Mk.III LM577 HA-Q "Edith",belonging to 218 Squadron RAF,taken at Chedburgh, Suffolk.
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This midweeks photo.
A Meteor III from the High Speed Flight at Tangmere in 1946. Here a member of the groundcrew runs up the engines
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This weekends photo.
Handley Page HP.63 Halifax B.Mk.VII PN230 EQ-V "VICKY THE VICIOUS VIRGIN" of 408 B Goose Squadron RCAF, Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, Spring 1945
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This weekends extra.
Two from the 325th Fighter Group.The group converted to North American P-51 Mustang aircraft in May 1944 and provided the fighter escort on the first shuttle bombing mission from Italy to Russia in early June 1944, and became the first American group to score a victory while flying from a Russian base. It escorted heavy bombers during long-range missions to attack the Messerschmitt factory at Regensburg, the Daimler-Benz tank factory at Berlin, oil refineries at Vienna, and other targets, such as airfields, marshalling yards, and communications targets in Italy, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. It also covered operations of reconnaissance aircraft and strafed such targets as trains, vehicles, and airfields. The group continued combat operations until May 1945. The group moved back to the U.S. and was inactivated after V-E Day
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This midweeks photo.
A F6F-3 Hellcat flown by LTJG L.T. Kenney pictured just before crashing into the port catwalk during carrier qualification on board USS Cabot CVL 28 in the Chesapeake Bay in 1943
