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BROTHERS IN ARMS - When a Royal Australian Navy aircraft was forced down at a Marine airbase in Korea, the Leatherneck mechanics turned to help the pilot get his ship back into the air. Shown here, several mechanics swarm over the machine as curious onlookers stand by.

US Marine Corps mechanics service a Royal Navy Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (s/n WE790). According to the original caption this was a Royal Australian Navy aircraft. RAN 805 and 808 Squadrons operated from the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney (R17) off Korea between 4 October 1951 and 27 January 1952. In the background is a Vought F4U-4 Corsair. Unusual is the lack of any tail code on either aircraft. Circa 1951.

🔥 On July 5, 1943, Operation Citadel began – the German attack on the Kursk salient. Over the vast battlefield, one of the war's most intense air battles simultaneously erupted. The Luftwaffe and Soviet air force engaged in fierce combat.

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F4U-4 Korea

Hawker Tempest MK.V

Credit Etienne du Plessis

31 Sqn.RAAF Beaufighter.

Bristol Beaufighter from 31 Sqn RAAF in Australia 1944.

Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB fighter-bombers from No. 56 Squadron RAF in flight. No. 56 Squadron was based at Matlask airfield from August 1942 to July 1943.

The squadron's primary mission from late 1942 until the second half of 1943 was to patrol the airspace over the southern coast of Great Britain and intercept low-flying German fighter-bombers. April 1943

A Hawker Typhoon Mark IB fighter-bomber flown by Flight Sergeant JS Fraser-Petherbridge of No. 198 Squadron RAF takes off from Thorney Island to support the Allied landings in Normandy. June 6, 1944