Meanwhile IN THE PACIFIC ...

[ErrolC]

Good to see a RNZAF P-40 sneaking in there.

[Mark Allen M]

Two No. 15 Squadron RNZAF P-40K Kittyhawks, viewed from a 3 Squadron Hudson, while on patrol over the central Solomon Islands.


P-40E Kittyhawk NZ3008 (HQ-B) from No. 14 (Fighter) Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, based at RNZAF Station Masterton (Hood Aerodrome) in mid-1942.


RAAF B-25


Technical staff of the ML-KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Airforce) at Andir airbase near Bandung, Western Java.

[Mark Allen M]

Essex photographer on the island, date is May 1945 and shows the instant USS Enterprise got her elevator blown sky high.




F4U-1 Corsairs of VMF-113 on Engebi Island, in 1944


RNZAF Vought F4U-1D Corsair (NZ5410), flown by a pilot of 24SQN, landing at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain on the 20th May 1945.


RNZAF and US SBDs taxi to take off.


Marine Corps PBJ-1 Mitchell medium bombers in the South Pacific.


SB2C Helldivers, #305 & #311, from squadron VB-83 of the USS Essex in July 1945


Lt.Cdr. Horace Bristol, shows a flight of F4U Corsair aircraft in formation above the clouds over Bougainville, February 1944.


Some sort of flap work being done to a Corsair.


F4U-1D #63 VMF-213 USS Essex FEB 1945


USS Yorktown

[Dan K]

SB2C Helldivers, #305 & #311, from squadron VB-83 of the USS Essex in July 1945

So, how do you cheer yourself up without a tailhook?

[Lon Moer]

I don't have any reference or credit for this picture, but it seems like the best thread to post it in.

[Jim MacDonald]

Mark,

I could be wrong, but I believe the Corsair having flap work done is actually having the machine guns synchronized.

Mac

[DH82EH]

I was going to say something similar.
I think you are right Jim.

Mark, thanks as always. Simply amazing, treasures and time capsules these photos are.

Andy

[norman malayney]

Too bad the USMC/Navy did not have access to color film at that period. Color pictures would have been magnificent.

[lucky52]

I am just amazed at the quantities and different types( bombers, fighters,dive bombers, observation) of aircraft that the US was able to supply to the Dutch Air Force, the RAAF, and the New Zealand Air Force and still produce enough for our own units.There must have been a heck of a lot of spare parts left over after the war.

[Mark Allen M]

F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft lined up on the ground at Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands.


An F6F Hellcat on the runway at Turtle Bay Fighter Airfield, March 1944.


SBD Dauntless is moved off a barge with the help of a small bulldozer onto a dock built by Navy Seabees on Espiritu Santo.


C-47's flying near New Guinea.


Damaged Douglas C-47B-1-DL Skytrain 1945 Philippines.


Munda Airstrip mid 1944


C-47's of MAG-25


Engine work on a Marine Air Group C-47

[Mark Allen M]

R4D taking off




R4D taxis at Torokina Dec 12, 1943


MAG-12 F4U Corsairs line the runway at Tanauan on Leyte on 7 December 1944.

[Mark Allen M]

VMSB-245’s parking area in May 1945 at Ulithi.


MAG-45 at Ulithi


F4us taxi out on Majuro 1944


VMF-215 on Barakoma airstrip on Vella LaVella

[Mark Allen M]

SNJ on Turtle Bay strip. Location: Espirtu Santo, New Hebrides. Date: October 5, 1943. Taken by: CPU2. NARA.


SNJ with Major Louis B. Robertshaw in front cockpit, Lt. J. P. Drennan on ground, taking Eyemo for Jos. F. Ames, PhoM 2/c. Location: Espirtu Santo, New Hebrides. Date: October 5, 1943. Taken by: CPU2. NARA.






An SNJ flight over Turtle Bay, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. Photographed with an SBD with camera pointing back.

[Mark Allen M]

1944 - Admiralty Islands


1944 - Admiralty Islands


PBY Catalinas on the ramp of the Luganville Seaplane Base, Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 1942.


Fourteen Mile Drome, or Schwimmer Drome, outside Port Moresby.


Finschhafen from the air note the P-38's spread out in the dispersal cul-de-sacs

[Mark Allen M]

B-25 BOMBERS 13278 OVER NEW GUINEA


A Douglas C-47 Skytrain takes off from Turtle Bay Airfield on Espiritu Santo, November 9, 1943.


44th FS arrives at Munda airstrip August 14th 1943.


Guadalcanal June 1943, and using a home-made rig constructed of coconut logs, aircraft mechanics bore sight the machine guns in an F4U.


Vought F4U with VMF-113 pilots on Engebi Island, 1944


Gene Roddenberry's crashed B-17 on Espiritu Santo