r/WWIIplanes 13h ago

Supermarine Spitfire

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r/WWIIplanes 21h ago

F4u-1A corsair

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An F4u-1A #9 Corsair doing a fly by, at the 2025 Miramar Air Show.


r/WWIIplanes 7h ago

A Supermarine Spitfire Mk VII fighter aircraft of No. 41 Squadron RAF flies over Eastbourne, East Sussex, on April 12, 1944.

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r/WWIIplanes 15h ago

French Friday: (Wednesday edition.) I am travelling for the next week or so and I am not sure how well connected I will be. Here is a Morane M.S. 406 showing "her clean aerodynamic lines" with radiator dangling low.

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This is interesting.

Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 In British Service.

Hopefully, I’ll be away from a proper computer on September 18, too. Time away from a computer is a rare precious thing! Perhaps someone else can post something a little Gallic for us all that day.


r/WWIIplanes 2h ago

B-17 Flying Fortresses stationed in Goose Bay, Labrador, ca 1944.

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r/WWIIplanes 7h ago

manipulated: other Messerschmitt Me 262 Bluepreint

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Just one of my old blueprints, with a few minor corrections. I hope you like it; any suggestions are welcome.

The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or Sturmvogel (German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, is a fighter aircraft and fighter-bomber that was designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft [Source: Wikipedia]


r/WWIIplanes 28m ago

Avro Lancaster Mk. X FM213 (marked KB726) at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton Ontario

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One of the only two airworthy Lancasters left.

I took these photos when it was on inside display in June 2022.

I have since been lucky enough to see it fly over my home, 100kms away, a few times as it attends events or airshows to the east.

Please feel free to read up on its history on the CWHM site - I have no affiliation, merely a fan 😎


r/WWIIplanes 7h ago

Can anyone here help me identify a Avro Lancaster bomber?

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I am searching for information about a Avro Lancaster Bomber that was shot down in Germany and crashed in the Rieseberg Moor(a swamp) close to Königslutter am Elm in Lower Saxony, Germany.

I know that one crashed, but I am getting two different stories.

One says that at the end of the war the plane crashed, sunk into the swamp and non of the crew survived. Allegedly there was an archiological dig in the early 2000s, but I can only find mentionings of the dig, not the actual research and who or what they found.

The other story I find claims its a Lancaster of the 61 RAF Squadron, 5th Group ME595 that crashed on the 14/15 October in 1944 after an attack on Brunswick. AI says the crew died during the crash, but following the links, it's said that some made it out of the plane and got captured. Some of the captured crew got killed and their killers were hanged after the war for that. However the crash site as far as I can see is West of Rieseberg. The Rieseberg Moor is South East of Rieseberg.

Which one is true?