Photo of the week
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This midweeks photo.
Spitfire IIa P7922, taken at the Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory.
P7922 was shot down by Bf109 JG2 aircraft abandoned into sea off Portland 19-5-41, its pilot Sgt Barker rescued by ASR. -
This weekends photo.
And a nice profile shot of a Douglas O-43, observation aircraft.
The O-43 and O-43A served with the USSAC observation squadrons for several years before being assigned to National Guard units, 24 built. -
This weekends extra.
Two photos of a Messerschmitt Bf-110C night fighter from the I.NJG3 Luftwaffe squadron at a Sicilian airfield getting its guns checked..
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This midweeks photo.
And a nice photo of "The Swoose" a Boeing B-17D-BO Flying Fortress, USAAF serial number 40-3097, that saw extensive use in the Southwest Pacific theatre of World War II and survived to become the oldest B-17 still intact. It is the only early "shark fin"-tailed B-17 known to exist, and the only surviving B-17 to have seen action in the 1941–42 Philippines Campaign, operating on the first day of the United States entry into the war.
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This weekends photos.
And some wonderful colour shots of USS Missouri (BB-63),retrieving a Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane, during the ship's shakedown cruise, circa August 1944.
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This weekends extra.
German troops load a Sd.Kfz. 250 on to a Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant
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This weekends photo.
Heinkel He 111 V2 "Rostock" D-ALIX,she began endurance testing shortly after its first flight in January 1936, and continued in service until crashing with the loss of four lives on approach to Banjul, Gambia on 12 March 1937. Interestingly, some 90% or better of the mail was subsequently recovered from the wreck, and forwarded to its proper destination.
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This weekends extra.
Seafire Mk IIc on the flight deck of HMS Formidable, December 1942
Seafire Mk IIc of No. 801 Squadron aboard HMS Furious 1943
Supermarine Seafire Mk. III '127-S' PR295 at Ardmore Aerodrome,circa 1945.
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This midweeks photo.
And a nice close up of a Messerschmitt Bf 109E from I.-JG 52 taken at Woensdrecht with a ZC 250A practice bomb,1941
