Photo of the week
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This midweeks photo.
A nice air to air taken over North Africa of a training flight of Junkers Ju-87 Stuka pilots from Sturzkampfgeschwader 3.
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This weekends photo.
Heinkel He-111 bombers of Kampfgeschwader 26 under the hangars at Eleusis airfield Greece.
The Germans took advantage of the airport’s strategic location during the occupation of Greece, but the Allies did everything they could to make their lives more difficult.
When the Germans finally left Eleusis (and Greece) in 1944, they took care to completely destroy the airport facilities. -
This weekends extra.
Aichi E16A2 Zuiun naval reconnaissance floatplane (Allied code name ‘Paul’) (MSN 816) 634th Kokutai, coded 634-16. Captured by the US Navy. Test flown by ATAIU-SEA in 1945.
Shipped from Yokosuka, Japan to the USA 16 November 45 on USS Core (CVE-13) arriving NAS Alameda, California. NAS Patuxent River, MD for evaluation. NAS Norfolk, VA 8 Jan 47 for onward shipping to Floyd Bennett Field, New York for use as a static display. Fate not known.
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This midweeks photos.
Below April 1916. a Fokker E.III aircraft forced to land in the French lines at Courmelois, note the mirror.
