A Lot of Kodachrome ...

[Jim MacDonald]

Very sobering set of photos of the Nashville.

Mac

[Jim MacDonald]

Possible accident report for the crash of the two Marine Corsairs?

Mac

[Lon Moer]

War is the absolute failure of human kind.

https://youtu.be/EVESMxs4rbA
[youtube]https://youtu.be/EVESMxs4rbA[/youtube]

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[Mark Allen M]

Below Bombardier trainers are readied for instruction. The motorized units would simulate the track across the ground that the bombardier used to synchronize the optics in the Norden bombsight.

[Mark Allen M]

Naval aviation cadets check the morning roster for their primary training flights in N2S Yellow Perils, 1942-43.


Aviation Cadets Receive Primary Flight Training at NAAS, Rodd Field, Corpus Christi, Texas.


Aviation Cadets leave operations hangar and walk cut to N2Ss for Training Operations at NAS, Corpus Christi, Texas.


A mix of N2S's and N3N's NAS Corpus Christi.

[Tulio]

Below Bombardier trainers are readied for instruction. The motorized units would simulate the track across the ground that the bombardier used to synchronize the optics in the Norden bombsight.

Early Stealth fighters??



Saludos,


Tulio

[Mark Allen M]

Vice Admiral Patrick N.L. Bellinger, USN, Stands in Center of Large Group of French and American Naval Officers at NAS, Norfolk, Virginia.

[Mark Allen M]

The infamous C-76

[Mark Allen M]

C-46_42-107363


Loading Bombs onto PV-1 at a Naval Air Station, Aleutians

[Mark Allen M]

Curtiss Plant photos 1944

[mike furline]

https://www.historylink101.com/ww2_navy ... index.html

[Mark Allen M]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/143513596 ... 6179560842

[Mark Allen M]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/airandspa ... 574200936/

[Mark Allen M]

More Kodamadness!!!


Tail Section of PBJ-1 at East Coast Naval Air Station.


Scrubbing Planes at NAS Miami, Florida.


Warming Up NATS R5D on Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii.


SBDs Fly in Formation Over Caribbean, Protecting Shipping Lanes.

[Mark Allen M]

SB2C Lands on USS Yorktown (CVA-10) with Broken Tail Wheel on Flight Deck as Crewmen Rush to Scene.


SNJ's at NAS Miami, Florida.


PB4Y at NAS, Norfolk, Virginia.


PB2Y and PB4Y Construction at Consolidated Vultee Plant in San Diego, California.