Bury Them Bones

P-40 Kitty Hawk recently found in Western Saudi Arabia. After crashing in 1943, the pilot survived and salvaged what he could. His remains have not been found. [855 x 635]

Pub Pete of the 390th Bomb Group with her landing gear down

The top photo is a picture I took of a PBY Catalina at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. The pilot who showed it to me said: “Y'know, it was a surprisingly good bomber, and I say surprisingly because it was slow. This plane took off at 90, cruised at 90, landed at 90, and crashed at 90.”

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Doggo in Vietnam.

8.8cm Flak 36/37, the deadly eighty-eight. 

Supermarine Spitfire Ia ‘N3200 / QV’ (G-CFGJ) c/n 441. Owned by Imperial War Museum, Duxford, and operated for them by ARCo / Historic Flying Ltd. Restored to exacting 1940 condition, she is seen parked on home grass on the Friday before the 2017 Duxford Air Festival. Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire, UK. 26th May 2017

Mariah Carey visits US troops in Kosovo

MFW I realize how pointless and unfortunate my deployment to the US involvement in the Kosovo War is.

this is a call out post for my little trash man who wont let me go anywhere

just in case anyone wanted to see him in action

Aug 13 1918 US Army Air Service 1st Lt Field Eugene Kindley (12 kills) shoots down the Fokker D.VII of Lothar von Richthofen (40 kills) the brother the late Manfred von Richthofen. Lothar survives but never flies again https://t.co/EsDcigaRPX https://t.co/vub6mVzLmx http://twitter.com/ThisDayInWWI/status/1029074956775112704

“Leave no man behind”

Gregory “Pappy” Boyington (December 4, 1912 – January 11, 1988) Gregory “Pappy” Boyington was an American combat pilot who was a United States Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II. He received both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. Boyington was initially a P-40 Warhawk fighter pilot with the legendary “Flying Tigers” (1st American Volunteer Group) in the Republic of China Air Force in Burma at the end of 1941 and part of 1942, during the military conflict between China and Japan