Pete
Like your flight of Corsairs :worship: I have a bunce I can bore you with. I have been digging up some history on the Goodyear built F2G's with the R4360.

Rick
I knew you would come through :biggthumpup:

So bore us Mike! ;)

Vought-Sikorsky F4U-1 Corsair, Bu. No. 02170, with test pilot Willard Bartlett Boothby, 24 October 1942. This is the twenty-fifth production F4U-1. (Rudy Arnold/National Air and Space Museum NASM-XRA-1294)

The USS Hornet CV 8 leaving San Francisco Bay 2 April 1942 after loading 16 of Jimmy Doolittles B25's at Alameda Naval Air Station :flag:

Army AP2E


-- As if it was pulled out of a scene from a James Bond movie complete with covert ops and spy planes, one Army Aviation aircraft played a vital role as the eyes and ears over the skies of Vietnam
Back during the Vietnam War, the Army Security Agency basically ran an operation where they were using U-8 [Seminole} aircraft to monitor low-power radio transmissions and other signals -- it was a very covert program," he said. "This program was designed to listen for communications in the field to determine what the enemy was doing and be able to monitor that without them knowing it."

Since the Army didn't have a large, fixed-wing aircraft of its own, it eventually turned to the Navy, which had been operating P-2 Neptunes for some time as long-range, anti-submarine patrol aircraft.
In 1966, it was decided that the Navy would give the Army 12 P-2s that would be retrofitted to fit the Army's needs, and they were designated AP-2 Neptunes in the Army inventory.

Usmc au 1
 

USMC Gray

B17
 

B17's post WW 2 at Kingman AZ :worship:

Just a few hundred million dollars worth of B17's sitting there at todays current flyable value. I believe there are only 10 or so still airworthy B17's left.

Nailed it!

Invasion strips
 

Hurriedly hand painting invasion strips days before the invasion