Luftwaffles

A Westland Whirlwind Mk.I fighter-bomber flown by Pilot Officer Eddie Musgrave of 137 Squadron RAF at Manston. March 1943

Douglas A-20 Havoc 47BG

A British Avro Lancaster "Fanny Ferkin II" bomber at the airfield. American aviators from the 401st Bomb Group stand nearby. 01.05.1944

Hawker Typhoon in the wet

US Navy PV-1 Ventura aircraft dropping a Mk XIII torpedo over Saratoga Passage, Washington, United States, 4 Jun 1943.

A Soviet DB-3F torpedo bomber from the 9th Guards Mine-Torpedo Aviation Regiment in flight over the Kola Peninsula. 1943

The veteran Avro Lancaster bomber ‘S for Sugar’, of No 467 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, prepares for its 97th operational sortie at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, in 1944.

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Good morning, everyone.

A colorized version of a photo from around 1945 showing the night fighter "Gekkō" abandoned at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Well then, let's do our best this week too.

The Nakajima J1N1 Gekkō (月光; moonlight) is a twin-engine aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. A prototype first flew in May 1941. The first full production variant of the Gekkō, the J1N1-C was a reconnaissance aircraft, although many of these underwent field modification into night fighters; in addition, a night fighter variant, the J1N1-S was later put into production. Towards the end of the war, J1N1 pilots also undertook kamikaze anti-shipping missions.[1] The Gekkō was given the Allied reporting name "Irving".

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German night fighter Messerschmitt Bf.110G, equipped with Lichtenstein radar, at the airfield note 20mm gun pack