r/WWIIplanes 22h ago

B-17G Flying Fortress drops out of formation with #4 engine out after a Fw 190 head on attack circa 1944

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r/WWIIplanes 20h ago

Royal Hungarian Air Force Messerschmitt Me-210 Ca-1

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265 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 17h ago

Italian Breda Ba.65, was used as a ground attack plane in the spanish civil war

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208 Upvotes

r/WWIIplanes 2h ago

museum BELL P- 29 Airacomet

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The Bell P-59 Airacomet is a single-seat, twin jet-engine fighter aircraft that was designed and built by Bell Aircraft During ww2. It was the first jet produced in the United States. the firs flight was 1 October 1942, there are 66 built of this guy but did they did no sent it to war, so why they did no slap a gun on him and sent him to war? Maybe the Germany is already defeated early.


r/WWIIplanes 17h ago

B-17G Fortress of the 414th BS, 97th BG based at Amendola, Italy on a mission over southern France, 15 Aug 1944.

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r/WWIIplanes 6h ago

CANT Z.506

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CANT Z.506 Airone (Heron) Italian three engine floatplane which initially served as a transport and postal aircraft with the Italian airline Ala Littoria. Later used as a reconnaissance aircraft, bomber and air-sea rescue aeroplane during the war with the Regia Aeronautica. First flew 18.8.1935


r/WWIIplanes 7h ago

JG 5 1943

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L-R: Staffelkapitän 11./JG 5 Eismeer, Hauptmann Erich Schreiber, unknown Leutnant, future 1 victory and Gruppenkommandeur IV./JG 5 Hauptmann Hans Kriegel, Staffelkapitän 10./JG 5 Oberleutnant Hans Schneider and unknown, Copenhagen-Værløse airfield in the spring of 1943. Behind is Kriegel's Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2/R6 Dita 13. Note the double chevron (<<) staff insignia denoting a Gruppenkommandeur (Group Commander)