Picture Thread for WW2 Aircraft

[DD_bongodriver]

Interesting pic of the Spit Corto, points to note are the gyro gunsight and the missing cannon fairing, but something looks odd about the cannon barrel but I can't put my finger on it.

 

anyway don't want to break the thread rules, heres a couple of pics.

 

talking of colourized

 

 

[Corto]

captured??? MIG 3

 

 

James Edgar Johnson and his Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX, Bazenville, Normandy, France, 1944

 

[=LD=Hethwill]

This is the beginning of a sequence of wonderful shots taken from a B-17 being escorted by the 361st FG. At the time, the main four fighter aces at the front of this lead group had developed quite the reputation, and were known as 'The Bottisham Four'.

 

source: http://www.ww2color.com/  The Jeffrey L. Ethell Collection

 

[StarLightSong]

My dream of lend lease planes in BOS continues. . .

[HeavyCavalrySgt]

 

Nine-O-Nine  @VNY.

 

[Corto]

US. Lt. Ralph "Kidd" Hofer in his P-51 Mustang "Salem Representative" with his pet dog "Duke".
As an athlete and a 'Golden Gloves' boxer, he joined the RCAF in July 1941 and transfered to the USAAF in June 1943 and flew in the 334th FS, 4th FG.
"Kidd" was one of the top strafers in the 8th Air Force with 15 enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground. Hofer got his last air-to-air kill during a mission to Budapest, Hungary on May 28, 1944.
On July 2, 1944 he was killed in action, flying a P-51B while climbing to engage 20+ Me.109's near Budapest, Hungary. The wreckage of his Mustang and his body were later found at Mostar, Yugoslavia.
(Colorised by Mike Gepp from Australia)

 

[MiGCap]

Dauntless at Jax Air Show 2011:

 

 

 

 

 

Picture has disappeared, don't know why. Here again:

 

 

[Corto]

P-64 replica

 

 

Yak 3

[352nd_Wheels]

At the March Museum in 2009.

 

 

Last time I was there about a year ago the paint had been stripped from her and work was being done to fix some things.

 

 

Wheels