Photo of the week
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This weekends photos.
And two shots taken at Düsseldorf on the sixteenth of August 1953, of Pan American Airways PAA Boeing 377 Clipper "Mayflower" N1031V, c/n 15931.
Delivered new to PAA-Pan American World Airways in 1949. Named Clipper Mayflower, then Clipper Donald McKay. Sold to RANSA in April 1961, registered YV-C-ERH, named Princess Everetta Maria II. Broken up in July 1969 at Miami International -
This weekends extra.
Four P-51 Mustangs over England after VE Day. Leader of the formation is P-51D Mustang E9-S 'Hilma Lee' serial no. 44-14520 flown by Lt. Claire P Chennault.
Below from the same photo shoot.P-51 Mustang E9-S serial no. 44-14520 nicknamed 'Hilma Lee', aircraft of Lt. Claire P. Chennault of the 376th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group.
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This midweeks photos.
And a couple of wonderful shots of a Do-215 B1 aircraft used by Field Marshal Kesselring shortly before takeoff.
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This weekends photos.
And some interesting shots of Erwin Rommel in a Dornier 215 departing Heraklion airfield located on Crete for Egypt.
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This weekends extra.
And a nice shot of a Free French P-39Q of squadron 3/13 "Auvergne".
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This midweeks photo.
Charles Nungesser and his Nieuport 17 1895
Nungesser flew a variety of Nieuports,most of his planes bore his famous personal insignia of a black heart, edged in white,upon which was painted a white skull and crossbones, coffin, and two candlesticks.
With this he also adopted the title "The Knight Of Death".
The aircraft he flew bore prominent tricolour markings on the upper surfaces of the wings and also often on the fuselage and upper surface s of the lower wings.His original silver-doped Nieuport 17 bore the number N1895.This number was apparently important to Nungesser, as he had this serial number applied to several other planes.
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This weekends photos.
Arrival of General Alexander Löhr in a He-111 at the Heraklion airfield Crete.
Alexander Löhr (20 May 1885 – 26 February 1947) was an Austrian Air Force commander during the 1930s and, after the annexation of Austria, he was a Luftwaffe commander. Löhr served in the Luftwaffe during World War II, rising to commander of Army Group E and then to commander-in-chief in Southeastern Europe (OB Südost). Löhr was one of three Austrians who rose to the rank of Generaloberst (colonel general) in the German armed forces. The other two were Lothar Rendulic and Erhard Raus.
Löhr was captured by Yugoslav Partisans at the end of the war in Europe. He was tried and convicted of war crimes by the Yugoslav government for anti-partisan reprisals committed under his command, and the bombing of Belgrade in 1941. He was executed by firing squad on 26 February 1947 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
