Photo of the Week

Every Tuesday, we will be posting a photo from our enormous archive.…

Kaimana Drome at Utarom

  By August 1944, Utarom was the last major Japanese…

Big Nimbo

The artwork for BIG NIMBO was almost certainly put on the aircraft…

B-17 Miss Em and Crew

After its service with the Group, CAP’N & THE KIDS was…

Wreckage of B-24 Tempermental Lady

TEMPERMENTAL LADY flew the last of her more than 70 missions…

Explosion of the Arkansas Traveler

ARKANSAS TRAVELER, piloted by Jack Manders, is seen exploding…

A Wrecked B-17

B-17C #40-2074 was one of the 170 American aircraft destroyed…

Then and Now: Buka Island

After being claimed by the Germans in 1885, Buka was turned…

B-24s at Nadzab

Scattered among the taxiways at Nadzab, New Guinea in 1944,…

Then and Now: Rabaul

Rabaul was a German colony in the 1900s that was captured by…

Going Home

Three emaciated 501st Squadron officers relax aboard the escort…