American Aviation

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Curtiss Tomahawks of 3rd Squadron, "Hell's Angels" of the Flying Tigers above the river Salween on Chinese-Burma border.
Nearest plane is flown by Charles Herman "Chuck" Alder (finished war with 18 victories in the skies of China over Japanese aircraft).
After the war he returned to law and became a judge in Los Angeles.

 

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P-51 at University of Miami

 

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B-25, California 1942

 

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Vought Kingfisher

 

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Vultee V-11 in Turkish service

 

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P-47's over France

 

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Navigator training, Kelly Field, Texas 1942

 

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B-29

 

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North American O-47 observation/utility plane

 

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Curtiss Hawk

 

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Dauntlesses on USS Enterprise

B-26 Marauder workers

 

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P-51 pilot

 

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Arming a P-51

 

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"Princess Elizabeth attends the rechristening of bomber B-17G (306th Bombardment Group). The bomber was renamed the 'Rose of York' after the English House of York, the white rose is their family coat of arms.
The aircraft was later lost in the North Sea after a raid on Bremen."

 

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'The Black Aces' Tuskegee airmen

 

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B-17, Langley Field, Virginia

 

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P-38, Pacific

 

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Northrop P-61

 

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The famous "black widow", Spike.-

 

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B-17s