Great shots, great planes!
Thanks for sharing
Not to Hijack!!
Reno Air Races after Labor Day 2021 are ON!
See these beauties actually race the other BIG BOYS of their time!
Great set. I love the sight of FREEDOM as much as I love to hear the SOUND of freedom. Every plane is beautiful to me, including my favorite the BUF!
Thanks for posting,
c ya in Reno at the old Stead AFB.
C
My favorite WWII warbird. Nice set.
Nice captures and renderings. Thanks for sharing.
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
Beautiful planes, well presented in your beautiful photos!
Great work!!! and great planes. Our pharmacy professor was a WWII corsair pilot, in the Navy on a carrier. As all of you know, there were some problems initially with carrier landings, later resolved. Many of my classmates were active protesters of the Vietnam War and when they brought it to class he said, "when you see what the enemy did to our men, you'll understand I couldn't wait to drop bombs and napalm on them as fast as I could. Don't bring this to my classroom until you have fought in the war." Right or wrong, that was the end of that. I always think of him when I see these great planes and the "Greatest Generation."
byjoe
Loc: Stillwater, OK
My brother flew these beauties in WW2 off the aircraft carrier Lexington, which I believe currently sits in Corpus Christie, Tx.
phlash46
Loc: Westchester County, New York
Photomac wrote:
Great work!!! and great planes. Our pharmacy professor was a WWII corsair pilot, in the Navy on a carrier. As all of you know, there were some problems initially with carrier landings, later resolved. Many of my classmates were active protesters of the Vietnam War and when they brought it to class he said, "when you see what the enemy did to our men, you'll understand I couldn't wait to drop bombs and napalm on them as fast as I could. Don't bring this to my classroom until you have fought in the war." Right or wrong, that was the end of that. I always think of him when I see these great planes and the "Greatest Generation."
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I understand his point, but, they were not the same wars. My Dad and I had this discussion, he and I were both in the First Inf. Div., he in WW II and I in Viet Nam. He agreed they were different and he would have felt differently about it.
One of my favorite WW2 war birds, Steve, great series, my favorite is the P51 Mustang.
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