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Crossroads Store, Juke Joint and Gas Station, Melrose, Louisiana, 1940
Adolf Hitler
visits Paris with
architect Albert
Speer (left)
June 23, 1940.
Hitlers army
had captured
Paris, and he
came to admire
his new city.
Curtis P-40 Flying Tiger Squadron. The Flying Tigers Were Credited With Destroying
Nearly 300 Enemy Aircraft While Losing Only 14 Pilots on Combat Missions
Consolidateds B-24 Liberator The B-24 was built in two Consolidated plants. Production was also licensed to
Douglas, North American and Ford. At its peak, Fords Willow Run plant was producing 428 planes a month. A
total of over 18,000 planes were produced by the five plants. Today, only three B-24s remain in flying condition
and there are only about 10 in museums. The planes were flown by the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia,
South Africa and India. A good number of the museum planes were salvaged from Indias bone yard.
WASPs (Womens Air Service Pilots) walking past the B-17 flying fortress known as Pistol
Packing Mama. In WW2 they shuttled airplanes from factories, served as test pilots and
delivered supplies by air. They trained out of Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, now the
home of the WASP museum.
Alcan Highway
1942
Bell Aircraft Corporation P-63 Kingcobras undergoing final Inspection at the Niagara Falls, New York factory. The
planes were built for Russia and provided under the Lend-Lease program. Air Transport Command ferry pilots,
including U.S. women pilots of the WASP program flew the planes to Great Falls, Montana and then onward via
the Alaska-Siberia Route through Canada to Nome, Alaska where Soviet ferry pilots, many of them women,
would take delivery of the aircraft and fly them over the Bering Strait to Russia. A total of 2,397 aircraft were
delivered.
The United States restricted the theaters that the planes could be used in, however, once the Russians had
possession of the planes, they used them where they pleased, perhaps they couldnt understand English. On the
other hand it may have been that in the midst of a war you just do what you need to do. A concept not foreign to
Auschwitz
May 2, 1945, Soviet Soldiers Raising a Soviet Flag on the Roof of the Reichstag in Berlin
Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that Delivered the First Atomic Bomb
Cologne
Times Square
Celebration of the
end of the war.
The soldier and
the nurse are
unknown but
people have
come forward to
claim the fame.
Apparently the
nurse slapped the
soldier
immediately after.
Berliners
Watching a
C-54
Carrying
Supplies
Land at
Tempelhof
Airport
During the
Berlin
Blockade
1948