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…