Memorial Day ...

[Mark Allen M]

... guess a few color photos may be appropriate. Here's some of the best I have dug up over the years. Photo credits and a big thanks to all who took them. And a bigger thanks to those who are in them. And especially thanks to all the vets for giving those the freedom to be able to bitch when I don't give proper photo credits. lol

Happy Memorial weekend to all who serve and served and especially take a private minute to remember those who we hold at the highest level of respect, admiration and honor.

EDITING and adding info to each post now.

Part 1


U.S. Army Air Forces Piper L-4 Grasshopper crew receiving orders prior to taking on an observation mission; they are standing by a jeep in front of their aircraft, ca. 1942


Right side view of U.S. Army Air Forces North American B-25A Mitchell on the ground; the ground crew is warming up the plane as the flight crew jump from a jeep in the foreground during an "emergency" call at an East coast airfield, ca. 1942.














Front head-on view of U. S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver on the ground with wings folded up and servicemen working on the aircraft.


Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver. Front center view looking aft at Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver (BuNo 19951)

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Part 2




USN Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat c 1943


USN Douglas SBD Dive Bomber c 1943


P-47 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron








B-17G-90-BO #43-37869 was completed in the Seattle plant on August 12, 1944, and assigned to 710th Sqn447th BGp

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[Mark Allen M]

Part 3


B-24 Liberator-One of Gen. Harmon's Personal Planes


B-25s of 491st Bm Sq. 341st Bm Gp, complete engine run-ups prior to departing from Yangkai on a mission in spring of 1945


Two airmen roll a bomb underneath a P-38 Lightning in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.








Low three-fourth right front view of the U.S. Army Air Force Firestone XR-9B (s/n 46-001) in low flight, Fred W. Soule is at the controls.

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[Mark Allen M]

Part 4




Right side aerial view of U.S. Marine Corps SBD-1 Dauntless ({132-B-4}), member of Scout Bomber Squadron 132 from the Quantico, Virginia, ca. 1941










Left side aerial view of U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat (BuNo 26108) in flight, probably over Long Island, New York.


Left side aerial view of U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat (BuNo 26108) in flight, probably over Long Island, New York.


VMTB-232 (The Red Devils) served in combat from the first days of the Guadalcanal campaign through the final campaign on Okinawa




VMF-323 F4U Corsair over Korea around 1951-52


Original-Slide-Navy-Grumman-F6F-Hellcat-at-NAS Norfolk c 1946

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Part 5

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Part 6


VMF-312 the 'Checkerboards' USS Bataan, CVL-29


VMF-312 the 'Checkerboards' USS Bataan, CVL-29


VMF-312 the 'Checkerboards' USS Bataan, CVL-29

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Part 7














I'll go back a bit later and add some info ... too lazy right now.

[Duggy009]

Nice photo's, lots more here LINK --- http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/s ... startrow=0

[Mark Allen M]

As is why their posted ....

[Mark Allen M]

Tragic loss ...
R.I.P. William Gordon, and condolences to family and friends.

[kalamazookid]

What's the story on the yellow SB2C? Flight test center markings?

[Duggy009]

That's the problem with all these THICKER ACCOUNTS thousands of photo's, but no research & no INFO !!!
Just nicked from other sites.
As for your yellow aircraft -- http://axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e ... hp?132.520

[Mark Allen M]

That's the problem with TROLLS, no class to know when to respect the purpose of why I post thousands of 'nicked' photos. You've been a pain in the *ss ever since you showed up here on WIX posting all YOUR harvested photos and taking BS shots at me. And I know where you harvest your photos because I've been to the same sites. There's never been anything new you've posted that most of us haven't already seen before. And if you ever bothered to used the search tool on this site you'll see 90% of all your pillaged photos have already been posted, researched and discussed long ago. So why don't you take a hike you frickin hypocrite and go back to your video game site that you keep pitching here in every one of your posts.

It's A-holes like you who make my efforts a waste of time. And it's also TROLLS like you who need your *ss kicked.

Sorry to everyone else that I can't hold back from sounding off to these losers that show up from time to time. Sorry it's put a damper into why I started this thread. It was mean't to be an honor to those know fought and died so TROLLS could have a mouth to spout off with. Sad it has to be that way.

[Invader26]

That's the problem with all these THICKER ACCOUNTS thousands of photo's, but no research & no INFO !!!
Just nicked from other sites.

Mate take your snide comments elsewhere. We enjoy Mark's postings...

You're obviously a Bernie /Hillary supporter>>

[Chris Brame]

Right side view of U.S. Army Air Forces North American B-25A Mitchell on the ground; the ground crew is warming up the plane as the flight crew jump from a jeep in the foreground during an "emergency" call at an East coast airfield, ca. 1942.

Per AAIR and Baugher: B-25A 40-2200, based at Mitchel Field, was written off July 6, 1942 in a forced landing due to weather near the Coast Guard station seven miles east of Amagansett, NY.