Photo of the week
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This weekends extra.
The Gruppenadjutant of the I.-JG 1, Leutnant Eberhard Burath, in his Focke Wulf Fw 190A-4 Wnr. 581 at Fliegerhorst Deelen, April 1943
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This midweeks photo.
And an original colour shot of P-40's being refueled in the Aleutians
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This weekends photos.
Below Convair 440 Eastern Airlines in flight.
Below Convair 440 Delta Airlines in flight.
Below Convair 340 Braniff Airways in flight.
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This midweeks photo.
Taken postwar,North American B-25, Boeing B-17,(Survives today at Duxford UK as "Sally B") Boeing B-29 and Other Airplanes on the Line.
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This weekends photo.
Ground personnel of the 52nd Fighter Group work on a Spitfire (EB-K) used for training purposes. Passed for publication 4 Aug 1942.
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This weekends extra.
Junkers 87's being transported by rail, captured near Hameln 04-08-1945.
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This midweeks photo.
Assembly shop of German Ju-87 dive bombers at the Weser-Flugzeugbau plant in the hangars of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.
During World War II, the Weser Flugzeugbau company utilized the hangars of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin for aircraft production, notably the Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bombers.
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This weekends photo.
Albatros D.III D.2096/16 ,This aircraft was flown by Ltn Friedrich-Wilhelm Wichard of Jasta 24, and It was captured after it was shot down by Lieutenant Pinsard on April 22, 1917,and ended up at McCook airfield in Ohio for trials in Winter 1917.
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This weekends extra.
A nice air to air of a Hurricane in flight. Believed to be No. 136 Squadron RAF.
WWII
The squadron was reformed at RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire on 20 August 1941 as a fighter squadron, flying Hawker Hurricanes and became operational on 28 September, doing shipping patrols and scrambles. This lasted only one month as the squadron was scheduled to move to the Middle East on 9 November to support Russian forces in the Caucasus and so protecting the vital Middle East oil fields.
En route however the destination was changed to the Far East, following the news of Pearl Harbor and the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse. On arrival in India the squadron was redirected to Burma, arriving there at Rangoon in early February 1942. However, because of the fast advance of the Japanese forces it was necessary to withdraw the squadron back to India again, 26 February to RAF Dum Dum and a day later Asansol, and before the squadron had chances to become really operational. Attacks by the Japanese forces and accidents had the squadron with only six flyable Hurricanes left by this time.
Regrouped as an operational squadron on 31 March 1942 around Alipore, still on Hurricanes, the squadron provided convoy patrols and air defence of the Calcutta area, but in December it began operating detachments over the Burmese front and by the end of the month it moved to Chittagong to continue these operations from there. Returning to India at RAF Amarda Road in November 1943 for a training course, the squadron meanwhile had converted to Spitfire Mk.Vs in October and returned to the Burmese front with them in December 1943.
In January 1944 the Spitfire Mk.Vs went to another unit and were replaced with Spitfire Mk.VIIIs. In July the squadron moved to Ceylon, flying from Ratmalana and later from Minneriya. At the end of March 1945, the Squadron ground echelon had left for the Cocos Islands and the squadron's aircraft began flying upon completion of the airstrip there a month later.
After the Japanese surrender the squadron re-located to RAF Tengah, Singapore in October and from there went on to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in November 1945, where they received Spitfire Mk.XIVs and where it remained until 8 May 1946, when the squadron embarked for India. Arriving in Bombay, the squadron was disbanded on 8 May 1946 by being renumbered to No. 152 Squadron RAF.
