Tarihin oluşturulan en büyük hava taarruz filosu 769 ağır bombardıman (RAF) Avro Lancaster 527 ağır bombardıman (USAAF) B-17 Flying Fortress 784 North American P-51 Mustang uçaklarından oluşan bombardıman filosu 13-15 şubat 1945 tarihinde Almanya'nın son kalan sanayi tesislerini
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (Boring!) keeps trying to fight the BRAVE MEN of the USAAF! He should stop trying to build WUNDERWAFFE and start making LUFTWAFFLES instead! Or maybe lose some weight!
Where to aim at a moving fighter, from a USAAF training manual. Rather than aim in front, as you typically would when you are stationary & leading a target, you must aim slightly behind, as your bullets will retain the forward motion of your aircraft as they travel.
Today we feature PR.XVI MM364 seen here at RAF Mount Farm for hand over to USAAF forces. Despite several accidents and incidents, this Mosquito would survive the war to be scrapped in November 1953.
Dominic Salvatore 'Don' Gentile (December 6, 1920 – January 28, 1951), also known as 'Ace of Aces', was a World War II USAAF pilot who surpassed Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record of 26 downed aircraft. He later served in the post-war U.S. Air Force.
All set to give this evening's Author's talk at the fabulous American Library here in Norwich. What an amazing memorial to the 2nd Air Division. The Library has an impressive collection of USAAF historical sources, and it is staffed by an equally impressive team.
Soviet General Ivan Susloparov signing the documents of Germany's surrender, Reims, France, 7 May 1945. His aide is on the left and USAAF LtGen Carl Spaatz on the right.
Banyak orang tidak menyadari seberapa jauh teknologi helikopter pada Perang Dunia II. Faktanya, Pada Hari Ini di tahun 1943, Kolonel Hollingsworth Franklin (“Frank”) Gregory, USAAF, menyelesaikan pengujian kelayakan pendaratan dan peluncuran helikopter dari kapal dagang.
1st May 1945. First day of the USAAF’s Operation CHOWHOUND, air drops of food to starving Dutch civilians. The counterpart of the RAF’s simultaneous Operation MANNA, participating aircraft were granted safe conduct by the Germans. The 5,500 American and British sorties flown
Sgt Frank Bond, a photographer with the USAAF 40th Photo-Recon Squadron, found the streets littered with Japanese Occupation Currency as US forces entered Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), May 3 1945
80 years ago: 29th April 1944. Personnel of 3 Squadron RAAF rush to extinguish a burning P-40 at Cutella airfield, near Termoli, Italy. A USAAF P-47 had strafed the airfield, believing it to be enemy held. Several other aircraft were damaged and personnel injured. A pilot from a
