#world war 2 bombers

[historyandwarfare]

Strategic bombing – from Douhet to drones

Introduction Gulio Douhet and bomber mafia Italian general Gulio Douhet was, along with UK politician Stanley Baldwin (who said that “bomber will always get through”), German general Walther Wever, US general Billy Mitchell and UK marshal Hugh Trenchard, one of main advocates of idea that strategic bombing can win war. Ideas were as following: war can be won entirely by destruction of enemy…

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#aviation #bomber mafia #drones #Gullio Douhet #history #libya #nuclear deterrence #strategic bombing #UAV #war on terror #World War 1 #World War 2 #world war 2 bombers

[theworldatwar]

The rear gunner of an RAF Lancaster bomber watches the sky for enemy fighters as they head out on another mission - date and location unknown

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #wwii era #ww2history #avro lancaster #lancaster bomber #Lancaster #avro #raf #royal air force #tail end Charlie

[lonestarflight]

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress "Big Yank" (44-6405) starting up her engines. This Fortress is credited with 3 Me 262 kills and one probable on March 24, 1945.

NARA: 195654

source

#Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress #B-17 #B-17G #bomber #USAF #world war 2 #world war ii #WWII #WW2 #History #March #1945 #my post

[beautifulwarbirds]

JU 87 Stuka

#world war 2 #world war ii #wwii #ww2 #aviation #warbird #history #bomber #dive bomber #stuka #ju 87 #art #aviation art

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

B-17 "Flying Fortress" and B-24 "Liberator"

#b 17 flying fortress #b 17 #flying fortress #b 24 liberator #Liberator #B-24 #wwii #world war 2 #bombers

[emeraldexplorer2]

WWII Bomber Pilot Brigadier General James Stewart

#vintage #actor #bomber #pilot #vintage photos #vintage men #vintage hollywood #vintage photography #vintage muscle #world war 2 #world war two

[ultimate-world-war-ii]

Waist blister turret of prototype bomber XB-17, which was not adopted in the final design of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, circa Jul 1935

Photographer: Unknown

Source   ww2dbaseUnited States Air Force

Added By C. Peter Chen

#ww2 #wwii #world war 2 #world war ii #world war two #second world war #b 17 flying fortress #b-17 #b-17 flying fortress #xb-17 #wwii aircraft #heavy bomber #turret #machine gun #prototype #wwii weapons #2nd world war #military aircraft

[scarywardrobe]

Installation of fixtures and assemblies on a tail fuselage section of a B-17 at the Douglas plant in Long Beach, California, October 1942

#Boeing #B17 #Flying Fortress #B-17 #Douglas #Long Beach #factory #World War 2 #1942 #bomber

[vintageadsmakemehappy]

1942 Martin Aircraft Wartime advertisement

#1942 #ww2 #wartime #wwii #world war 2 #vintageadsmakemehappy #vintage magazine #vintage advertising #magazine #advertising #40s #1940s #Martin #bomber #aircraft

[a-4skyhawk]

B-25 sinks IJN vessel

#wwii bombers #wwii pacific #wwii planes #world war 2

[lonestarbattleship]

Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldivers of VB-18, assigned to USS Intrepid (CV-11), on patrol over the Philippine Sea, on November 15, 1944.

Note crudely repainted markings on tails.

NHHC: 80-G-K-2222

#Curtiss SB2C Helldiver #dive bomber #USS Intrepid (CV-11) #USS Intrepid #Essex Class #Aircraft Carrier #November #Philippine Sea #1944 #world war 2 #world war ii #WWII #WW2 #WWII History #History #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #u.s. navy #my post

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"THE SOUND OF DISTANT AIRCRAFT GROWS LOUDER AND LOUDER...!"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a reportedly composite photograph of German Heinkel He 111 bombers over the English Channel, flying low in order to avoid all possible British radar frequencies, c. 1940.

[Who caught my 1981 DISCHARGE reference? War is a black hole to avoid!]

Source: www.reddit.com/r/WWIIplanes/comments/111q7fb.

#German Heinkel He 111 bombers #WWII #War photography #Luftwaffe Bombers #German Luftwaffe #Bomber Squadron #Battle of Britain #Luftwaffe #1940s #English Channel #Military history #German Bombers #1940 #Bombers #Heinkel He 111 bombers #World War 2 #War history #Composite photography #Forties #40s #Battle of Britain 1940 #World War II #Heinkel Bombers #Nazi Germany #Photography #Aviation

[theworldatwar]

A British Royal Airforce Avro Lancaster seen above the German city of Hamburg - Jan 1943

#world war two #ww2 #worldwar2photos #history #1940s #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #wwii era #ww2history #avro lancaster #lancaster bomber #lancaster #royal air force #raf #1943 #Hamburg #germany

[lonestarflight]

"Consolidated B-24 Liberator, 15th Air Force, flies over smoke from bombs that struck at an enemy gun positions in the Sete area of Southern France."

Date: August 12, 1944.

NARA: 204897962

#Consolidated B-24 Liberator #B-24 #bomber #World War II #World War 2 #WWII #WW2 #WWII History #History #August #1944 #United States Army Air Corps #US Army Air Corps #Army Air Corps #Air Corps #USAAC #my post

[beautifulwarbirds]

#b-24 #liberator #p-40 #warhark #aviation #warbird #world war 2 #world war ii #ww2 #wwii #bomber #heavy bomber #fighter

[soviet-amateurs]

Natalia Meklin, the pilot of the 46 female night bomber squad (the night witches), author of the memoirs From Dusk to Dawn. 1945

#soviet #russia #ussr #memoirs #world war 2 #pilot #female #night #bomber