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L-Birds ...

Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:22 pm

... LOTS of em!!! and some good one's here IMHO. Everything Fold3 had in their archives that I could dig up so maybe there's a few some of you haven't seen yet. Hopefully the information is relatively correct, if not I'm sure you Liaison folk will correct them. Sit back and enjoy the show. pop2

Part 1 of many (keep checking in)

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Vultee L-5 'Sentinels' Lined Up On An Air Strip In Burma In Preperation For An Air Show. 1 August 1945

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Vultee L-5s in formation. SSgt. Richard D. Houston is piloting Guinea Short Lines. NEW GUINEA

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Vultee L-5S Of The 1St Air Commando Group Are Gassed From A Portable Refueling Unit At Ye-U, Burma. January 1945

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Vultee L-5 'Sentinel' Over Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto

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Vultee L-5 'Sentinel' Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron, 10Th Army, Taking Off From Field Number 10, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto

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Vultee L-5 Pilots Of The 1St Air Commando Group Standing In Front Of An L-1 Plane Which Is Used For Evacuation Of Wounded

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Vultee L-5 Of Flight 'A', 163Rd Liaison Squadron Attached To The 10Th Army, On Line At Cub Field No. 10 On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 1945

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Vultee L-5 Guinea Short Lines being refueled at Valencia Airstrip, Mindanao, Philippine Islands

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Vultee L-5 carrying litter patient to hospital from a forward strip-3

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Vultee L-5 carrying litter patient to hospital from a forward strip

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View Of Vultee L-5 Sentinel En Route To Photographic Mission

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V-2 with L-5's in the background

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Refueling A Vultee L-5 On Airstrip At Myitkyina, Burma. 1944

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Rover Joe A Gound-Air Tactical Method Used By Mediterranean Allied Air Forces To Coordinate Fighter-Bombers And Infantry Action In The Mountain Approaches

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Stinson (Vultee) L-5 of the First Tactical Air Force (Provisional), France, February, 1945

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Stinson L-1 Serial Number 41-18976by JHGray on March 15, 2011

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Stinson L1 Vigilant on floats
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Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:36 pm

Part 2

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Stinson OY-1 (possibly BuNo 60508) assigned to Marine Observation Squadron Two (VMO-2) I belive this is Iwo Jima with the first B-29 landing there.

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The pilot of L-5B 44-17003 of the 163rd Liaison Squadron lost control taking off downwind at Cub Strip #10, Okinawa

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Stinson O-49A Vigilant

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The Sikorsky Yr-4 Helicopter, While On A Rescue Mission, Ran Short Of Gas As It Approached Sinkaling Hkamti, Burma

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The ramp at Beasely Field, Okinawa holds the newly arrived L-5s of the 157th Liaison Squadron, just in from the Philippines on 9 July 1945

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The Vultee L-5 hugs the mountains in China as it goes out on a mission over the Salween front

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The Vultee L-5 plane in the foreground has just landed at the base in Poashan, China

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This Vultee L-5 Crash Landed On Cub Field #7 During Test To Determine The Area Necessary To Land The Plane Or To Take Off. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, 1945

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Two Vultee L-5 'Sentinels' Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron, 10Th Army In Flight Over Okinawa Ryukyu Retto
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Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:37 pm

There are more pictures there as well... Most of 'em are pretty hard to find, though.

Ryan

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:49 pm

There sure is and they sure are ...

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8R ID letters on these Stinson L-5s denote their assignment to the 153rd Liaison Squadron

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42-99552 Stinson L-5 Sentinel (to RAF as Sentinel I KJ391. SOC Oct 28, 1945)

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43-30338 (Piper L-4H Grasshoppers

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91St Bomb Group Base In Bassingbourne, England

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125th Liaison Squadron L-5

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125th Liaison Squadron L-5

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157th Liason Sq L-5

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Aerial View Of Group Of Vultee L-5'S

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A Vultee L-5 Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron Takes Off From Cub Field No. 7 On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. This Squadron Is Attached To The 10Th Army. 1945

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A Vultee L-5 Carries An Infantryman To The Front Lines Near Bhamo, Burma. 2 December 1944

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A Radio Equipped Vultee L-5 Of The 9Th Af Tactical Air Liaison Section With The Us 3Rd Army Reports On Enemy Targets During A Flight Across The Rhine

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163rd Liaison Squadron's move from Hawaii to Okinawa, March 1945

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:58 pm

Mark, thanks for posting those photos. Did you happen to see any stateside 1941/1942 L bird photos on that site. I have been looking in vain for 18 months for any photos of Aeronca O-58A aircraft and it seems none exist. If you happen to run across any I would sure love to see them.

Steve

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:01 pm

Part 4

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Base Flight Section, 303Rd Bomb Group, England. 23 April 1945

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An L-5 Lands At The Ville Coublay Airfield While The 818 Engr. Avn. Bn. Is Still Completing The Runway For Heavier And Faster Craft

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An Inprovised Bomb Shackle On An L-4 Airplane That Flies In Support Of The 158Th Infantry. The Bombs Are Bazookz Shells. January 1945

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Aeronca L-3B 42-36119 in the area of the 29th Air Service Group, South Pacific, late 1943

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Aeronca L-16

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:09 pm

There's a couple of sites I'm looking at so I'll see what I can find as far as state side stuff. I've alotted myself only an hour a day to play around with old photos and warbird websites. :wink:

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Cub plane which will be used for artillery observation, being unloaded from an LST, during landing operations near New Guinea. 2 January 1944

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France-1st Lt. John J. Donnelan of New York, a pilot of a Piper L-4 Cub

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How a Stinson L-5 normally arrived in a combat theater in a crate

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How a Stinson L-5 normally arrived in a combat theater in a crate

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Cub Landing Strip Approx. 2 Miles South Of Passo Futa, Italy

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C-64 Getting Ready To Take Off From Rosales Airstrip

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:21 pm

Part 6

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Italy, Holding The Poles Bearing The Message Cord And Message Bag For Air-Ground Message Pick Up

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L-5 42-98417 of the 5th Liaison Squadron. Large 6 plane-in-squadron number may indicate previous assignment to the 115th Liaison Squadron

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L-5 42-98700 Frisco Kitty assigned to TSGT Milo Elliott, 25th Liaison Squadron Guinea Short Lines

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L-5 42-99481, 25th Liaison Squadron Guinea Short Lines, 12 May 1945

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L-5 42-99544 was bailed to the Royal Air Force under the Lend-Lease Program with RAF serial KJ403. It is fitted here with the Brodie System for retrival

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L-5 42-99544 was bailed to the Royal Air Force under the Lend-Lease Program with RAF serial KJ403. It is fitted here with the Brodie System for retrival

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L-5 42-99544 was bailed to the Royal Air Force under the Lend-Lease Program with RAF serial KJ403. It is fitted here with the Brodie System for retrival

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:31 pm

Part 7

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L-5 Is Preparing To Mark The Target With Smoke

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L-5 over the Philippine Islands

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L-5 serial 42-99518 was part of a batch of ten 'Sentinels' 99512-521 bailed to the NavyMarines

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L-5B 42-99637 Angel of Mercy of the 1st Air Commando Group, a War Bond purchase aircraft donated by students of Parkman School in Detroit

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L-5B 42-99640 of the 1st Air Commando Group

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L-5B 42-99703 of the 160th Liaison Squadron

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L-5B 44-16761 of the 157th Liaison Squadron Phillipiens

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:40 pm

Part 8

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L-5B 44-16761 of the 157th Liaison Squadron. carrying litter patient to hospital from a forward strip

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L-5B 44-17007 of the 163rd Liaison Squadron, Okinawa

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L-5S Of The 160Th Liaison Squadron Were Used To Evacuate Medical Patients From Forward Areas To Nielson Field, Manila, Philippines

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Line-Up Of Vultee L-5 Planes At Liuchow Air Base, China In July 1945, After Its Re-Occupation By The Allies

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Lt. Alfred W. Schultz, Waterloo, Iowa, Pilot, Holds The Air-Ground Pick-Up Equipment Used By The 3Rd Prov. Pack Battery While At The Front

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Luzon, Philippine Islands - By Ambulance The Wounded Are Brought Out Of The Front From And Aid Station To The Forward Strip To Meet The Vultee L-5

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Luzon, Philippine Islands-Landing strip for Vultee L-5 evacuation planes

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:52 pm

Part 10

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Luzon, Philippine Islands-This flying Sergeant, by his Vultee L-5, will fly this wounded soldier from this forward airstrip

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MAJ Jack Blohm's ski-equipped L-4J (serial 44-80091) lands at the 30th infantry Division strip at Spa, Belgium

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Mechanics Put Landing Gear On A Vultee L-5'S Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron Attached To The 10Th Army

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Men Attach A Wing To One Of The Vultee L-5 Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron Attached To The 10Th Army

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Men Of The 11Th Airborne Division Are Seen As They Prepare A Liaison Plane For Loading Into A Douglas C-54 Of The Air Transport Command

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O-46 flown by 2Lt Gladen 44th FS to carry woulded and medical supplies during the invasion of New Georgia 8-43

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On the night of 12 March 1945, a tornado rolled through Kalaikunda airstrip, Kharagpur, India

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Philippine Islands. MSgt. Wainman, Vultee L-5 pilot posing next to his plane which is used to evacuate wounded men from forward areas

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Philippine Islands. Vutee L-5 which brought patients into Rosales airstrip from forward areas

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:58 pm

And a pretty groovy shot here ....

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Ground Crew Of A Cub Tells Boeing B-17 Ground Crew Chief Of Part Played By The Cub In Spotting Planes For Bombers On Raids. England

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:07 pm

First pix in part 7, note the bomb shackles on both planes

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:29 pm

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Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:48 pm

Thanks, Mark :drink3:
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