WWII
Ear infection...
Now it's time for...
I was a little mad that most of these pictures I found didn't have any kind of caption besides the name of the plane. ~_~ Date? Year? Location? Background? Maybe? Please? A little bit? Kinda?
A German aircraft over Normandy. Holy wow.
A German Messerschmitt BF 109E (a Luftwaffe fighter plane)
Now time for... p-51 Mustangs!!! (My fave fighter ever! This was probably one of the most common aircraft the US produced during the war.) Mmmm... tasty.
p-51 pilots chillin'.
A German Ju-87 Stuka. Yech, ugly.
American crewmen servicing a P-38. Whoa, look at all the guts.
A German navigator of a Heinkel-111.
"Oops... Sorry, Fritz, I had the map upside-down."
A German Focke-Wolf 190. Under Goering's command, these fighters were absolutely terrifying. They were quick, swift, and fatal. Along with flak (an anti-aircraft weapon used against Allied bombers along the coast and, well... everywhere), these were definately the sharp-shooters of the Luftwaffe.
B-25's being refuelled. One of the most important and infamous roles they played in the war was on Doolittle's Raid on Japan.
Story time, kids! After Pearl Harbor, they wanted to prove to Japan that they could, in fact, get across the Pacific and get to their country, which beforehand the Japanese had doubted, so Doolittle made a small come-back. In order to do this, a well-known US Airforce commander, Doolittle, had to train bomber pilots to fly a B-25 off an aircraft carrier. That's, like... impossible. But they did it. An aircraft carrier has barely any length for a plane/jet to take off (because if you don't have enough space to take off, you die... just so you know) so they basically stripped a lot of the B-25's extra weight so that the plane would be light enough to get off the non-existent runway while still carrying a load of bombs. Nowadays, jets take off with the help of enormously compressed air that sort of jumpstarts it off the runway so it doesn't just fall off into the water. Anyway, this happened the spring after the attack. They were generally succesful, but a lot of pilots that had to crash-land because of the shortage of fuel because of weight were captured in China and I'll just stop there because I'm really tired.
Anywho... B-24's!!! MA BABIES!!! (I believe the name of the primary bomber is "Joisy Bounce"? geh can't read it too small...) American bombers.
These are B-17's (boo! ugly) from the 381st BG, accompanied by a P-51 from 339th FG.
Pilot of a P-39. Yeah, that's what they wore. Cool, ne?
P-38 (20th FG) Another US fighter. I could go on and on about this one, too, but I won't because you'll go insane. If you aren't already.
A Chinese training plane. You couldn't PAY me to fly that thing. My ass would fall through. Em, anyway, before the US entered the war, lots of pilots volunteered in China to teach them how to fly so they could have some defense against Japan. But then they were screwed when all the American pilots left to help out their own country.
Thank god for LJ cuts.
Now it's time for...
I was a little mad that most of these pictures I found didn't have any kind of caption besides the name of the plane. ~_~ Date? Year? Location? Background? Maybe? Please? A little bit? Kinda?
A German aircraft over Normandy. Holy wow.
A German Messerschmitt BF 109E (a Luftwaffe fighter plane)
Now time for... p-51 Mustangs!!! (My fave fighter ever! This was probably one of the most common aircraft the US produced during the war.) Mmmm... tasty.
p-51 pilots chillin'.
A German Ju-87 Stuka. Yech, ugly.
American crewmen servicing a P-38. Whoa, look at all the guts.
A German navigator of a Heinkel-111.
"Oops... Sorry, Fritz, I had the map upside-down."
A German Focke-Wolf 190. Under Goering's command, these fighters were absolutely terrifying. They were quick, swift, and fatal. Along with flak (an anti-aircraft weapon used against Allied bombers along the coast and, well... everywhere), these were definately the sharp-shooters of the Luftwaffe.
B-25's being refuelled. One of the most important and infamous roles they played in the war was on Doolittle's Raid on Japan.
Story time, kids! After Pearl Harbor, they wanted to prove to Japan that they could, in fact, get across the Pacific and get to their country, which beforehand the Japanese had doubted, so Doolittle made a small come-back. In order to do this, a well-known US Airforce commander, Doolittle, had to train bomber pilots to fly a B-25 off an aircraft carrier. That's, like... impossible. But they did it. An aircraft carrier has barely any length for a plane/jet to take off (because if you don't have enough space to take off, you die... just so you know) so they basically stripped a lot of the B-25's extra weight so that the plane would be light enough to get off the non-existent runway while still carrying a load of bombs. Nowadays, jets take off with the help of enormously compressed air that sort of jumpstarts it off the runway so it doesn't just fall off into the water. Anyway, this happened the spring after the attack. They were generally succesful, but a lot of pilots that had to crash-land because of the shortage of fuel because of weight were captured in China and I'll just stop there because I'm really tired.
Anywho... B-24's!!! MA BABIES!!! (I believe the name of the primary bomber is "Joisy Bounce"? geh can't read it too small...) American bombers.
These are B-17's (boo! ugly) from the 381st BG, accompanied by a P-51 from 339th FG.
Pilot of a P-39. Yeah, that's what they wore. Cool, ne?
P-38 (20th FG) Another US fighter. I could go on and on about this one, too, but I won't because you'll go insane. If you aren't already.
A Chinese training plane. You couldn't PAY me to fly that thing. My ass would fall through. Em, anyway, before the US entered the war, lots of pilots volunteered in China to teach them how to fly so they could have some defense against Japan. But then they were screwed when all the American pilots left to help out their own country.
Thank god for LJ cuts.