United States Army Air Corps

A blog following the history of the USAAC and later USAAF, from the birth of aviation through the early jet age. This blog is not affiliated with the US Air Force.

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P-51D Ole III, 358th Fighter Squadron

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In the nose of CAF Airbase Arizona's B-25J Maid in the Shade, a veteran of 15 bombing missions over Italy.

After 3 years of trying I finally got the flight I'd been looking forward to.

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A P2V-6 of VP-21 in flight near NAS Glenview, July 1956

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P-51D Miss Steve, 357th Fighter Squadron

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B-17C Pamela, a former 19th Bomb Group aircraft converted into a transport and used by the 317th Troop Carrier Group in Australia. She would crash at Mackay, Queensland on 14 June 1943, killing 40 of her 41 passengers and crew.

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The tail section of a C-47 that crashed at Cooktown, Australia, 13 June 1944

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B-24D Lonesome Polecat and crew, 308th Bomb Group

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B-24J Kansas Cyclone of the 11th Bomb Group on a mission over Truk, August 1944

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314th Troop Carrier Group C-47s at an airfield in England

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P-51D Q's Blitz Buggy of the 355th Fighter Group at Gablingen, Germany, during the Allied occupation

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P2Vs of VP-29 in Japan, 1952

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San Antonio Rose and an unnamed B-17E of the 435th Bomb Squadron after a taxiing incident in Australia, summer 1942.

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A B-18B fitted with a Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) boom in the tail

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A B-18A tests rocket-powered rear-facing depth bombs for anti-submarine use

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A TP-47G in flight over the US, 1942.  The aircraft was converted from a Curtiss-Wright production P-47D/G and never placed into serial production

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NBS-1s and other Army aircraft at Langley FIeld, 11 June 1921

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A TBD of VT-6 under guard at MCAS Ewa Field, Pearl Harbor, after a midair collision with another bomber of VT-6