Photo of the week
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This weekends extra.
1st Lt Jeremiah O'Keefe of VMF-323 the "Death Rattlers" flashes his number of kills from the cockpit of his F4U Corsair during the Okinawa campaign.
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This weekends extra.
A nice factory shot of a Hawker Hurricane Mk IV taken1943
And a No.3 Squadron RAF, Hurricane night fighter taxiing.Believed to be at RAF Station Hunsdon.
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This midweeks photo.
A cool shot of the 1000th Beaufighter built at "Old Mixon", Weston-super-Mare Mk.VIC JL762 on 2nd January 1943.
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This weekends photo.
And a wonderful close up of a Marine pilot in his cockpit of a Grumman F4F-3A Wildcat,taken during the Louisiana Wargames which were conducted from August to September of 1941.
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This weekends extra.
And a couple of nice shots of Republic P-47D-4-RA, based at Air Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field Florida.
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This midweeks photos.
A nice crisp shot of a Messerschmitt ME109e from 1./JG20. .
A Bf 109 G-10, of JG 301,taken at Stendal, after 13 April 1945.
And a Bf 109 G-14AS W.Nr. 786 316 Weisse 4,taken at Kassel, June 1945.
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This weekends photo.
The Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command was formed in the fall of 1942 to establish a single command to control antisubmarine warfare (ASW) activities of the Army Air Forces (AAF). It was formed from the resources of I Bomber Command, which had been carrying out the antisubmarine mission in the Atlantic and Caribbean since the Attack on Pearl Harbor due to the lack of long range Naval aviation in that area.
The command's units conducted ASW along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, in the Caribbean Sea and in Europe, where it used bases in England and French Morocco. Its operations were marked by disagreements between the AAF and the Navy concerning the conduct of air ASW. In the fall of 1943, the ASW mission was transferred to the Navy and the command became a bomber training unit until it was inactivated in 1946. Below B-25 "Stinky"
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This weekend extra.
And a nice colour shot of Curtiss A-25A Shrike 42-79800 "Torchy Tess".
