Photo of the week
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This midweeks photo.
KLM's DC-2-115E, PH-AKJ named Jan van Gent (cn 1356). Entered service on 15 April 1935 until the aircraft was captured by the Germans after the air raid on Schiphol airport on 10 may 1940. From 16 May 1940 it was re-registered PC+EC joining the Deutsche Luftwaffe. In 1944 it returned to the Lufthansa as D-AJAW..
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This weekends photo.
British troops have some fun with a downed German Albatros.
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This weekends extra.
Douglas R4D transport aircraft Flag aircraft of Rear Admiral Osbourne B. Hardison, chief of Naval Air Primary Training, is checked out by ground crew at NAS New Orleans, circa early 1945
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This midweeks photo.
Another factory shot of an A-20C warming up,for a test flight.
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This weekends extra.
And two nice shots of Heinkel 111's with torpedoes, probably both flown by KG/26.
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This midweeks photo.
Vickers Type 432 DZ217 at Foxwarren, prior to its first flight.
The Vickers Type 432 was a British high-altitude fighter aircraft developed by the Vickers group during the Second World War. Intended to enable the Royal Air Force to engage the enemy's high-altitude bomber aircraft, it was to be armed with six cannons. -
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This weekends extra.
A wonderful air to air of Hurricane Mark IVD, KZ193, fitted with two 40mm Vickers Type 'S' guns and a Vokes tropical filter. This aircraft was temporarily converted to Mark V standard in March 1943, by fitting a Rolls-Royce Merlin 32 engine driving a four-bladed propeller, for performance trials at Brooklands and Boscombe Down. Having reverted to Mark IV status in July 1943, KZ193, was issued to No. 164 Squadron RAF at Warmwell, Dorset, who employed it on anti-shipping strikes.
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This midweeks photo.
USS IOWA Captain John L. McCrea (center), ship's Commanding Officer, shows other senior officers around the ship, during her shakedown, circa February - May 1943,behind sits a OS2U Kingfisher aircraft on its cart._ship_s_Commanding_Officer_shows_other_senior_officers_around_the_ship_during_her_shakedown_circa_February_-_May_1943_OS2U_Aircraft_on_its_cart..jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
