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United States Army Air Corps
A blog following the history of the USAAC and later USAAF, from the birth of aviation through the early jet age. This blog is not affiliated with the US Air Force.
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A KB-50J tanker of the 421st Air Refueling Squadron in flight
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Poop Deck Pappy, 44th Bomb Group
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A Vought OS2U Kingfisher is launched from turret no. 3. Catapult on USS TEXAS (BB-35), during one of the escort crossings in the Atlantic Ocean.
Date: January 1-March 31, 1944
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Suzy Q of the 44th Bomb Group in flight during the raid on Ploesti
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Bachelor's Bedlam, 458th Bomb Group
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Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in the cockpit of a 44th Bomb Group B-24, June 1943
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Admirable Little Character of the 458th Bomb Group and crew, April 1944
Standing: Richard Christensen (RO), Matt Davan (N), Don Harrington (B), B.J. Newmark (CP), Gilbert Schulze (P)
Kneeling: Charles Metcalf (BTG), Richard Black (NTG), Herbert Shaffer (WG), Roger Brown (E), William Burk (TG)
The aircraft would be shot down by an FW-190 on a mission over France on 25 April 1944 with four KIA
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A 97th Bomb Wing B-50D on the ground, likely near El Paso, Texas, early 1950s
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A PBY-2 of VP-11 in flight
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A group of P-51s of the 503rd Fighter Squadron in flight, 1944-1945. From front to rear are Cpt. Clarence Knott's Dee, Lt. Jerry Bush's Shy Ann, Lt. John Byer's Sally II, and Lt. Ethelbert Graham's Miss Max.
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