53 items in this album on 3 pages.
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USAAF 3rd Bomb Group photographic section, Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 | US B-25 bomber 'Fat Cat' taking off, Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 | US B-25 bomber 'Hot Horse' after belly landing at Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua after a returning from a mission over Rabaul, New Britain, mid-1943 | US B-25 bomber after belly landing at Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 |
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Wreckage after a takeoff accident, Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 | B-17F Fortress “Talisman” warming up before take-off from Jackson’s Drome, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 5 Sep 1943. This plane carried Douglas MacArthur to and from the battle zones in New Guinea. | C-47 Skytrain transports loaded with paratroopers bound for the raid on Nadzab, New Guinea, 5 Sep 1943 at the Port Moresby 7-Mile Aerodrome. Note General MacArthur and General Kenney standing at the lower left. | Gen Douglas MacArthur shaking the hand of his pilot, Col Harry Hawthorne, after observing the airborne paratroop drop at Nazdab, New Guinea from his B-17F “Talisman.” 5 Sep 1943 photo at 7-Mile Aerodrome, Port Moresby, New Guinea. |
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B-24J Liberator with the 90th Bomb Group, the Jolly Rogers, at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1943. | US B-25D Mitchell bomber 'Here's Howe' of the 'Grim Reapers' 3rd Bombardment Group, 'Pair-O-Dice' 90th Bombardment Squadron executing a low level attack on Japanese shipping, Rabaul, New Britain, Nov 2 1943 | A P-38 Lightning with the 80th Fighter Squadron, the “Headhunters,” at rest at Dobodura, New Guinea, Dec 1943 – Feb 1944. Note the improvised wheel chocks. | USAAF Major Richard Bong in his P-38 Lightning aircraft 'Marge', Dobodura, New Guinea, circa 1944 |
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A PBY-5 Catalina of Patrol Squadron 34, one of the “Black Cats” night patrol squadrons, at rest at Samarai Island, New Guinea, Jan-Feb 1944. Note the absence of any markings beyond the squadron patch on the bow and the side number on the tail. | | | |
53 items in this album on 3 pages.