Destination's Journey Military Photos

Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks, 164th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Ohio Air National Guard.

A New Zealand Lockheed Hudson IIIA bomber (NZAF serial number NZ2066, tail number UH-F, manufactured at the Hobsonville plant in the US in 1942) in flight. The aircraft went missing on August 20, 1944, while en route from Fiji to Whinuapai, New Zealand 🇳🇿

Republic F-84E-25-RE Thunderjet (Serial No. 51-508) from the 162nd Fighter Squadron, Ohio Air National Guard.

The battle of the gas bags!

Formed in 1938, RAF Balloon Command covered the entire UK with a giant network of tethered 'barrage balloons'. The Luftwaffe tried various systems (image 2 and 3) to beat the balloon cables, with mixed results.

Refueling of a German Fw.200C Condor bomber of the 40th Bomber Squadron (KG40) before the Atlantic patrol

Fairey Battle (L5156)

Italian aviators near a German bomber Junkers Ju 88A at the airfield. 1940

Prototype 4 of the Japanese G8N Renzan (連山) heavy bomber, captured by the Americans at the Nakajima plant. Similar prototypes were given the codename "Rita" by the US and its allies. 1945

June 1941. First flight of the Arado Ar 232 V1 Tausendfüßler (Millipede). Featuring a box-like fuselage slung beneath a high wing, rear loading ramp and high-mounted twin tail for access to the hold. Powered by a pair of BMW 801 engines.

French pilots from the Normandie-Niemen squadron who fought the Germans on the Eastern front: Junior Pilot Joseph Risso, Lieutenant Derviov, and Lieutenant Noël Castelen. A Yak-1B fighter is seen in the background. June 17, 1943

A French pilot from the Normandie-Niemen regiment and Soviet technicians prepare a Yak-3 fighter for takeoff. The pilot in the photo is Lieutenant Roger Marquis.

Loading supply boxes from a GAZ-AA truck into a Soviet, American-made Douglas C-47A-20-DK Skytrain transport aircraft, equipped with a Soviet UTK-1 turret, on the 1st Baltic Front. November 1944

French pilot of the Normandie-Niemen regiment, Lieutenant Roger Marquis, in the cockpit of his Yak-3 fighter. By the end of the war, Marquis had shot down 13 German aircraft.