Form Follows Function

VMB-613’s police shed doubled as a laundry.  Seen here, Sergeant Roy R. Emmerling and Corporal James E. Horton collect laundry from fellow squadron members. 

Herbert Carter 99th Fighter Squadron Pilot and Chubby Green Co-Pilot, Italy 1945.

99th Fighter Squadron

demons:

RAF Hawker Typhoon pilots (of No. 181 Squadron) leave their briefing tent at Bazenville to begin their midday sortie over the Normandy battlefield.

greatestgeneration:

The pilots may have flown into action but they wouldn’t have had planes to fly without mechanics like George Johnson and James C. Howard, pictured here. They belonged to the 99th fighter squadron, a squadron that took down 12 Nazi fighter planes in just two days. A job well done!

peterquills:

Experienced in desert weather flying, a British pilot lands an American made Kittyhawk fighter plane of the Sharknose Squadron in a Libyan Sandstorm, on April 2, 1942. A mechanic on the wing helps to guide the pilot as he taxis through the storm. (AP Photo)

(via sniffleheim)

operationbarbarossa:

“Cherokee Strip”

More B-24J artwork beautifully crafted by a crew member of the 20th Combat Mapping Squadron, 8th Air Force - 1943

operationbarbarossa:

A modified Boeing B-17, a rescue plane of the 4th Emergency Rescue Squadron, flies near the shore of Chichi-Jima - 1945

(via urban-hunter)

1bohemian:

Men of the RAAF 457 squadron and their mascot stationed somewhere in the Pacific

RTC 210B