Plane Collection (page 4)

Christmas airmail being loaded on to a British Flying Boat on its way to British forces in the Middle East during the Second World War. 16th December 1941

American Mustang fighters of the Royal Air Force in flight over England during the Second World War. 23rd August 1942

Picture showing how heavy rain in northern Russia hampered the activities of the RAF Wing, the improvised landing ground being frequently water-logged and ankle deep in mud

One-armed Squadron Leader J. A. F. MacLachlan, commanding officer of Number 1 squadron
One-armed Squadron Leader J.A.F. MacLachlan, commanding officer of Number 1 squadron. His new mascot painted on the cowling, the V sign of a busted arm. 26th November 1941

The leader of one of the first RAF Fighter squadrons to destroy 100 enemy aircraft while operating from one station is the famous hurdler Don Finlay who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic

A German fighter brought down over Kent. September 1940

Flying nurses of the United States Army Air Force (USaF) 9th Troop Carrier Command who are specially picked and trained. Their Job is to fly to the forward areas

Canadian fighter squadron which is led by Squadron leader Sir Douglas Bader, the famous RAF flying ace who lost both of his legs in an air accident in 1931

American paratroopers pictured in the C-47 of the Troop Carrier Air Division of the 12th Air Force, en route to dropping zones in Southern France during the Second World War

Spahis were light cavalry regiments of the French army recruited primarily from the indigenous populations of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco

Photograph taken by Flying Officer T. C. Scott (Coastal Command
Photograph taken by Flying Officer T.C. Scott (Coastal Command) after a Junkers 188 of the German Luftwaffe had been shot down by his RAF Coastal Command Mosquito off Point Penmarch

A Yugoslav Squadron flying Spitfires from a Tactical Wing of the Balkan Air Force based in Italy, recently flew their first offensive mission over their homeland

Mechanics working on the British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Argus inside the hangar after it had completed 25 years of continuous service with the Royal Navy. September 1943

A female worker inspecting the cooling system of a Lancaster bomber plane of the Royal Air Force at an aircraft production site near reading, Berkshire during the second world War. 8th July 1943

Mosquito fighter plane registration number RG 314 of 81st Squadron, based at Seletar, Singapore, the last Mosquito in operational service with the RAF

Mosquito MK XVIII plane of RAF Fighter Command in flight during the Second World War. November 1944

Group Captain Scott OBE, DSO, DFC, led a recent attack by RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force Typhoon on a hidden gun position at Le Havre, Northern France

An RAF Typhoon aircraft patrolling the skies over a convoy after taking off from an airfield in Normandy, Northern France. July 1944

The thousandth enemy aircraft to be destroyed by the RAF in Malta was a Junkers 52, which fell to an American Fighter Pilot commanding one of the islands Spitfire Squadrons

RAF personnel being rowed out to a waiting Sunderland Flying Boat, many of which aided in the withdrawal from Greece. 23rd May 1941

Pre-war ground crew members of the County of London Auxiliary Squadron, pictured here in Italy with their Flaming Sword crest which was carved in 1928

An RAF Spitfire fighter plane flown by Canadians commemorates "Byng of Vimy"
An RAF Spitfire fighter plane flown by Canadians commemorates " Byng of Vimy", a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada. September 1941

Spitfire fighter aircraft piloted by pilots of the Royal Norwegian Air Force give fighter cover and close support to the Navy and Amy

Seafire fighter flying over Japan, piloted by Lieutenant Norman Goodfellow, R. N. V
Seafire fighter flying over Japan, piloted by Lieutenant Norman Goodfellow, R.N.V.R of Southport, Lancashire, operating from an aircraft carrier in the British Pacific Fleet. 17th July 1945

Inter-Allied air cooperation is particularly marked in Corsica where units of the French Air Force are flying Spitfires of the most forward of the Allied squadrons operating against German occupied

An RAF squadron took over the airfield from the Japanese, the children, who are brothers, presented themselves at the Orderly room of the station

The first Lancaster to be flown from the United Kingdom to Australia, with her fully Australian " Pathfinder" crew, which created a record in the process

A Halifax bomber landing after a night raid over Italy during the second World War. 19th December 1942

Scenes on an RAF Bomber Command Station as Halifax bombers take off to attack the German industrial city of Dusseldorf, Germany on the night of 11th June 1943

A bomber station in Britain from which great Halifax planes of RAF Bomber Command leave with their loads to take part in the systematic Allied campaign to wipe out German centres of industrial

A Belgian soldier and a British airman examine the wreckage of a Heinkel bomber brought down in Belgium. May 1940

Avro Lancaster planes of RAF Bomber Command carpet bomb a road junction near Villers Bocage, Normandy, Northern France through which the 2nd

A Whirlwind bomber in flight. United Kingdom. The Westland Whirlwind was a British twin-engined heavy fighter[citation needed] developed by Westland Aircraft

Girl Aircraft Designers at Miles Aircraft Factory in Reading, being taught how to get grace and beauty in the lines, and the aircraft they plan, by Polish dancer, Pole Nirenska

B-24 Liberator bombers of the 15th US Air Force, shown in formation near their target, a German aircraft assembly plant at Bourges, south east of Orleans, France. 10th April 1944

A Supermarine Sea Otter amphibian biplane in flight, The new Births Amphibian biplane Sea Otter Mark I. It is a single-engined amphibian biplane designed for naval spotting

Sergeant Betty Dunn, a WaF masseuse, helps Sergeant Wheeler of Tottenham to try out his repaired leg, ready for the day when he will do this in earnest. October 1943

A Supermarine Sea Otter amphibian biplane afloat. The new Births Amphibian biplane Sea Otter Mark I. It is a single-engined amphibian biplane designed for naval spotting

Heavy rain continues to hamper operations in Italy but in many points along the 8th. Army front, advance have been made. Heavy armour, supplies

Ninth US Air Force headquarters somewhere in France during the Second World War. A US 9th Air Force P-38 Lightning photo reconnaissance plane on its way to Germany where the pilot will take aerial

The first US jet propelled plane, the P-59 Airacomet is shown in a test flight. This streamlined new fighter plane, designed and built by Bell Aircraft

Picture taken on an RAF Halifax bomber station, where ground crews had to combat snow conditions before the operation could begin

A B-24 Liberator bomber of the US Eighth Air Force Second Division goes down in flames during the attack on railway marshalling yards at Munster in Germany on 9th March 1945

Whole blood given by European Theatre based American GIs of the US Army for their comrades in arms is loaded into an Air Transport plane to be flown from England to the front line hospitals

Aircraft carried: Two Supermarine Walrus aircraft (Later removed). HMS Ceylon was a Crown Colony-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy

Members of an aircraft factory who recently visited an RAF Squadron, invited the pilots to pay them a visit at the factory and see their fighter planes being made

A Dornier Do 18 flying boat seen from an RAF Bristol Blenheim during a combat over the North Sea, 26th April 1940. The Blenheim was one of a number returning from a raid near Bergen

A typhus team of No. 31 Mobile Field Hospital back their Fordson WOT1 Ambulance up to the freight doors of Douglas Dakota Mark III, KG523 H, of No

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