Weekend extra.
C-47 transport planes fly low over a Coast Guard manned LCIL off Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion 6 June 1944.

And a very smart looking R4D Skytrain assigned to Naval Air Station NAS Corpus Christi Texas circa 1955.

Midweek photo's.
And staying with R4D's.
Douglas R4D 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.

And Douglas R4D-5 Bu-17201- of the Naval Air transport Service arrives at a Naval Air Station with high priority cargo for local Naval establishments circa 1943-45.

Fridays photo.
First army P-40 fighter to take off from USS CHENANGO (CVE-28), to fly to shore for combat operations in Morocco, 10th November 1942.

Great photo !

Weekend extra.
BERLIN SLEEPER II.
Delivered Cheyenne Mod Cen 24/6/42; originally slated RAF as [FA685] ; Assigned 92BG Bovingdon /6/42 as PALE FACE; 342BS/97BG Polebrook /8/42; Maison Blanche 20/11/42; 103m, the first MTO B-17 to complete 100 missions, including participation on first night mission to Rouen, Fr.; Returned to the USA Eglin 12/10/43; was due to return to Boeing but shot down as a drone before paperwork completed.

Midweek Photo's.
And a couple of Century fighters.
F-105G Thunderchief, serial # 63-8299, wears special markings to commemorate the Air National Guard?s use of the F-105 with ?Thuds Forever? on the underwing drop tank along with final flight markings in the form of a peach and the date, ?May 25, 1983? and callsign of ?Peach 91.? The jet also wears the famous shark-mouth associated with the suppression of enemy air-defense, ?Wild Weasel? mission. (Courtesy photo by David F. Brown.)

A North Dakota Air National Guard 178th Fighter Squadron F-102 Delta Dagger aircraft flies over North Dakota. The 178th FS flew the F-102 from 1966 through 1969.
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. David Lipp 08.01.1966.

This weekends photo's.
A U.S. Air Force LT-6G aircraft flies in the demilitarized zone over South Korea in the fall of 1953. The North American Aviation T-6 Texan was modified during the Korean War for battlefield surveillance and forward air control, and designated as T-6 "Mosquitos." The photo's were taken by U.S. Air Force pilot Alexander P. Macdonald. He later became the North Dakota Air National Guard's 119th Fighter Group commander Feb. 28, 1968. He was promoted to brigadier general Dec. 14, 1981 and major general in June, 1983. He was appointed as the North Dakota adjutant general in August, 1984.

Weekend extra.
North American SNJ training plane at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Whiting Field Pensacola Florida.Circa 43/45.

Fred Christensen was assigned to the 56th Fighter Group in the Summer of 1943, as a replacement pilot. He shot down his first aircraft in November 1943. On 7 July 1944, Christensen became the first pilot in the 8th Air Force to shoot down six enemy aircraft on one mission. He claimed a total of 21.5 aircraft.

Whilst serving with the 56th Fighter Group, Christensen adopted a stray cat, which he named Sinbad. Sinbad supposedly flew missions with Christensen, who felt he was a good luck charm- they both returned to the United States on the completion of Christensen's tour of duty in September 1944. Following the war Christensen became a pilot in the Air National Guard, he retired in 1970.

Aircraft included P-47s 'Rozzi Geth,' 'Miss Fire' and 'Rozzi Geth II. '
Part of Zemke's Wolfpack.

This weekends photo's.
Two this week of Bell P-63F: Bell Model 43 variant featured an enlarged vertical tail and Allison V-1710-135; only two (AF 43-11719 and AF 43-11722) built. 43-11719 survives to this day.