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Category : Army Air Forces, Crew & Planes
Tags: Army Air Forces Papers, B-17, B-24, B-25, B-26, C-47, P-26, P-36, P-38, P-40, P-51, Photos
As you probably noticed it I have changed the theme of my Wordpress and I have lot of images that were used before with the other theme. I was thiking of erasing them then thought that other Military History Bloggers could maybe use them for their Blogs.
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On one Army Air Force Bombardment Mission planned in the vicinity of Berlin, no German fighter attacked the Bomber Group as well as the escort : P-40, P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang Long Range.
On their way back to England, another order was send for the escort planes : “turn into ashes everything that the German Army, Luftwaffe and Marine, could use to fight the Allies, in the Air, on the Field as well as everywhere these could hide”.
This was the order and this was what the escort did that day.
See the movie.
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Category : 18th Pursuit Sq., EUCMH : Donations
Tags: 12th Kokutai, 18th Pursuit, 18th Pursuit Squadron, 19th Pursuit Squadron, 1st Rengo Kokutai, 21st Koku Sentai, 22, 22a/b, 24a/b, 25, 26, 27, 44th Fighter Squadron, 6th Fighter Squadron, 6th Pursuit Squadron, American Martin B-26 Marauder, Battle of Solomon Islands, Bellows Field, Boeing P-12E, Boeing P-26, Borneo, Capt Roger W. Ramey, Capt Tom Lamphier, Cheju, China, Curtiss P-36, Curtiss P-40, Curtiss P-6E, Espiritu Santo Island, Florida Blanca, Formosa, G3M2 Japanese, G4M, G4M3 Model 34, G4M3 Model 36, Genzan AG (753 Ku), German Junkers Ju 88, Guadalcanal, Hankow, Hawai, Hawaii, Heinkel He 111, Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force, Japanese Betty Bombers, Japanese Zero, Kanoya, Kanoya AG (751 Ku), Kanoya Kokutai, Kizarazu Kokutais, Leyte, Lingayen, Lt Bruce K. Holloway, Lt John G. Simpson, Lt K. P. Bocquist, Lt Rex Barber, Lt Saburo Shindo, Lt William F. Savidge, Lunga Point, Luzon, Maj Carlyle H. Walsh, Maj Kenneth M. Walker, Malaya, Manila, Marianas, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Mihoro AG (701 Ku), Mindanao, Mindoro, Mitsubishi A6Ms, Mitsubishi C5M1, Mitsubishi G3M Nells, Model 281, Nanking, New Guinea, North American B-25 Mitchell, Okinawa, Omura, Ormac Bay, P-26A, P-26C, P-38, P-39, P-51D Mustangs, Palawan, Peashooters, Philippines, Polikarpov I-16, Prince of Wales, Repulse, San Jose, Sansapor, Taipei, Unguibus et Rostro, US Marine, US Navy F4F, Wheeler Field, With Talon and Beak, XP-936, Yokosuka MXY7, Zamboanga
(Greg Tongue)
Nice of you to reply to my letter. I agree with what you say regarding the gathering of goods (such as military memorabilia). Kenneth Tongue was in the United States Army Air Corps, Pre World War Two. This would be circa 1934. And I have photographs that were taken in Hawaii, circa 1934. I am sending you several photographs that my be of interest to your Military History Institute.
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Category : Army Air Forces
Tags: 164th Liaison, 165th Liaison, 166th Liaison, 1st Air Commando Group, 1st Combat Cargo Group, 1st Day Bombardment Group, 1st Mapping Group, 1st Photographic Charting Group, 1st Photographic Group, 1st Pursuit Group, 1st Sea-Search Attack Group, 1st Sea-Search Attack Unit, 1st Search Attack Group, 2nd Air Commando Group, 319th Troop Carrier, 512th Troop Carrier Group, 5th Fighter, 6th Fighter, 94th Pursuit Squadron, Ace of Aces, Anzio, Arzeu Beach, Asansol, Austria, Aversa, Balloon Buster, Billy, Breguet, Bulgaria, Burma, Camp Kilmer, Capt Dixon M Jordan, China, Chindwin Valley, Col Clinton B Gaty, Col J H Snyder, Col Philip G Cochran, Col Robert W Hall, Czechoslovakia, DeHavilland, DH-4, Drew Field, France, Germany, Greece, Gurka Paratroopers, Hailakandi, Hat-in-the-Ring, Hungary, Imphal, India, Irrawaddy River, Italy, Kalaikunda, Ledo, Lt Col Robert J Rentz, Lt Col Walter P Briggs, Lt Edward V Rickenbacker, Lt Frank Luke Jr, Maj Maurice D Watson, Maj Samuel B Ward, Maj Wilbur B Sprague, MB-3, Medal of Honor, Murvaux, Nieuport-28, P-16, P-26, P-35, P-36, P-38, P-41, P-43, P-6, P-I, Pantelleria, Ploesti, PT-3, PW-8, Rangoon, Rumania, Salerno, SE-5, Sopwith Camel, Spad, Thailand, Tunisia, Wingate’s Raiders, Yugoslavia
This is the second part of this study on the United States Army Air Force in World War Two. This part contains the list of the Air Force Groups.
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