A US B-17 Flying Fortress from the 398th BG returns home with significant nose damage - England, date unknown. Credit : IWM #england #b17 #ww2 #worldwar2 #usaaf #flyingfortress #damage

USAAF ground crew ready a Lockheed P-38 Lightning at RAF Goxhill - Lincolnshire, England 1942 #ww2 #worldwar2 #goxhill #lincolnshire #england #lockheed #lightning #usaaf #p38

#OperationMeetinghouse, the #FirebombingOfTokyo across two days, began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1945. The #USAAF dropped 1665 tons of ordnance, setting the #Japanese capital ablaze in a #WarCrime that destroyed 16 square miles, killed 100,000 people, and left one million homeless.

A US B-17G drops food supplies over the Dutch countryside to help starving civilians. The German commander arranged a truce so that USAAF & RAF aeroplanes could drop life-saving rations - March 1945 #ww2 #worldwar2 #usaaf #raf #royalairforce #usairforce #holland #dutch #countryside #b17

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USAAF aircraft set off on a mission to locate an airfield at Peleliu, Palau Islands, 1944 #ww2 #worldwar2 #usaaf #usairforce #peleliu #palau

The Douglas XB-19 project was intended to test flight characteristics and design techniques for giant bombers. Its construction took so long that competition for the contracts to make the XB-35 and XB-36 occurred two months before its first flight. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/douglas-xb-19/ #aviation #DouglasXB19 #aeroplane #airplane #bomber #USAAF #USAAC #USAF

US technicians repair a B-17 Flying Fortress’ landing gear after it was damaged during Operation Frantic - Poltava airfield, Ukraine, 1944 #ww2 #worldwar2 #usaaf #usaf #usairforce #boeing #b17 #ukraine #flyingFortress #poltava #airfield

US B-29’s use captured Pacific Islands to prepare for a raid on Tokyo - Saipan 1945 #ww2 #saipan #worldwar2 #tokyo #b29 #usairforce #usaaf

B-17 Flying Fortress’ from the USAAF 94th and 96th on display at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France just after the end of WW2 - 1945 #ww2 #worldwar2 #paris #france #eiffeltower #usaaf #flyingfortress #b17 #aviation