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impressive scoreboard of a wide variety of targets, and over 200 missions

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Drawings of Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944 B-17 during the Battle of Guadalcanal

https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/18899793572/in/photostream/ this last one is in a C47 transport Sgt Brodie (1915-2010) was an am...
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UMBRIAGO is an Italian-American slang Term for being thoroughly drunk as a skunk, a lot of warbirds were given this nickname.

Norman Lear, the terrific guy who made such tv shows in the 70s as All In The Family, Good Times, and The Jeffersons, and One Day at a Time....
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Staff-Sergeant Louis Kiss, a tail gunner of the 390th Bomb Group in position inside his B-17

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the 100th Bomb Group with a semi and trailer, I haven't seen a tractor trailer with bombers before... huh

It's a mobile shop - a Field Shop Repair Semitrailer, Steve found it in the manual of WW2 vehicles, TM-9-2800 http://www.iwm.org.uk/coll...
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the "Swoose" the only survivor of the 19th BG of Clark Air Base, Philippines. The only known surviving combat plane that served in the war from start (Dec 8th 1941 mission) to finish. The only surviving "Shark Tail" B 17. Pieced together from parts planes though the war. Now its been 70 years of storage and moving, and moving and storage. No one has displayed it, or restored it... or displayed it before dismantling it for storage.

Delivered to Hickam Air Base Hawaii, in May 1941, and moved to Clark Air Base PI in Oct 1941 Dec 8th 1941, the Japanese bombed Clark Air Bas...
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Knock-Out Dropper

First Lieutenant John P. Manning, a pilot of the 303rd Bomb Group, watches Sergeant Stanley Jacobs painting the 50th, bomb mission marking o...
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Jack Benny christening the "Bucksheesh Benny" for his 1943 USO tour at Benghazi Libya

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/536491374334443299/ B-24D-20-CO Liberator s/n 41-24112 566th BS, 389th BG, 8th AF Was originally a 44th BG pla...
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Oh, this is fantastic! He painted fake shutters around the waist gunner window, and a flower box underneath... that is great humor! The Swing Shift Baby, a B 17 in the 452nd

S/Sgt. Henry Warden from the 452nd Bomb Group putting the finishing touches on the artwork around his waist gun position. Several pictures o...
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Superman, oldest B 17 in the oldest B 17 group in Africa, it had 17 engine changes, and over 300 bullet and flak holes, but though 6 purple hearts, no fatalities in the crew

as of 1943, found on  https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/page5
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guide to USA warbirds of WW2

http://www.markstyling.com/wwll_s_view_header.htm
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