learical's military plane pix

[myk]

Great pictures, thank you very much.  I love WW2 birds.  Along with owning a Charger flying a WW2 bird is another dream of mine.

Got Hellcats?

[learical1]

here we go again!  Lockheed P-38's.  First 3 are P-38J's from POF. 4th is P-38L from AFM

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Another P-38L, photo recon version (F-5), from PAM

[Fred]

Haven't we come a long way!

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Lefty Gardner's P-38 at an air show.

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P-38M from CFM.  Don't let the 'P-38L' on the tail in photo 2 fool you.  In photos 2 and 3 you can see the bulge for the back seater, so it's an M.

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P-39's up next. a couple of P-39A's (March AFB and POF) and a P-39Q (AFM)

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P-40N from POF at an airshow

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Republic P-47 Thunderbolts. Big Stud, a razorback, is from CFM, camo with invasion stripes is from an airshow.  Last 2 are POF Jug, taken at an airshow, then at the museum.

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North American P-51's.  D models from POF, NASM, 1990 Cleveland Air Show, and AFM.

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P-51D from CFM, taken at an airshow.

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Bell P-59, America's first Jet "fighter".  We start with a picture from POF of a prototype YP-59A, with a second cockpit for an observer to read extra gauges for the jet engines.  Then we have a shot from the AFM. 

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Now we have the largest American Fighter of the war, Northrop's P-61C Black Widow, from the AFM.

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To end WWII Army Air Force Fighters, we have reverse Lend Lease at its finest: a De Havilland Mosquito.
From the AFM.

[elacruze]

This is awesome Lyrical, thanks!

An older friend of mine's Father was a ME-262 pilot in WWII, at the great age of 17. He said they ran out of gas after his 4th sortie, and he was really happy about it.