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Flt Lt ‘Stapme’ Stapleton of No 257 Sqn lets the wind flow through his hair as he flies and all-black Hurricane IIB from High Ercall during the summer of 1942. The Battle of Britain veteran was one of a number of aces from that campaign to volunteer for service with the Merchant Ship Fighter Unit
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Junkers Jumo 211 radial engines salvaged from a the wreckage of a Junkers Ju 88 shot down over France, are removed from the crash scene by low-loader for further examination.
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Crash of TBM ^11, VC-69, in port catwalk of USS BOGUE. ^11 being raised from catwalk. - NARA - 520652
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Sergeant Pilot John Joseph Mooney (l) of Long Island City with Pilot Officer Donald William McLeod of Blackstone, Massachusetts. Both are members of the Second Eagle Squadron, formed in the UK as part of the Royal Air Force's Fighter Command. November, 1941.
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A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bomber of bombing squadron VB-8, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in May 1942.
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Capt John C Fitch, 15BS, 12AF walking away from the belly landing he made in an Me110E Oct-43 Italy. Fitch had been flying the captured fighter to train US air gunners, when he was hit and had to belly in. Fitch later flew P-51D's for 4th Fighter Group.
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Lieutenant Colonel Louis Houck of the 365th Fighter Group wearing a flying helmet with devil horns in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt nicknamed "Screamin' Weemie". Image stamped on reverse: 'Keystone Press.' [stamp].
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Colonel Chêne, centre, talking to a visibly drawn and tired Dédé prior to the liberation parade in Poitiers, 5 September 1944. (Credit: R. Picard) Photo and caption featured in Behind Enemy Lines with the SAS: The story of Amédée Maingard, SOE Agent by Paul McCue
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