Military aviation photos

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I'd like to start this thread where we can share various interesting photos related to military aviation.

I'll start with a photo of USAAF P-51 B Mustang “Little Ambassador", shot down in Switzerland in 1945.

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Another Mustang. This time from Korea and ready for close air support mission.

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Fokker G1  330  near Zevenbergen, Holland. Pilot Buwalda (with rear gunner Sgt Wagenaar) was able to take off on May 10th 1940 from Waalhaven airfield near Rotterdam. Claiming two enemy bombers, the first one (a Heinkel) near Zuid-Beierland and the second one near Dordrecht (mentioned as a Dornier). Diving straight down to get clear of enemy fighters engine No.2 suddenly started smoking. Trying to make it on one engine the remaining engine also started to run rough. Near Zevenbergen a belly landing was carried out. It seems some souvenir hunters have already paid a visit when this picture was taken.

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54 minutes ago, Pausehelio said:

Fokker G1  330  near Zevenbergen, Holland. Pilot Buwalda (with rear gunner Sgt Wagenaar) was able to take off on May 10th 1940 from Waalhaven airfield near Rotterdam. Claiming two enemy bombers, the first one (a Heinkel) near Zuid-Beierland and the second one near Dordrecht (mentioned as a Dornier). Diving straight down to get clear of enemy fighters engine No.2 suddenly started smoking. Trying to make it on one engine the remaining engine also started to run rough. Near Zevenbergen a belly landing was carried out. It seems some souvenir hunters have already paid a visit when this picture was taken.

I love photos with a story behind them. 

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In April 1953 the U.S. Far East Command made an offer of $100,000 for the first MiG-15 delivered intact. No enemy pilot took advantage of this offer, and when the Korean truce went into effect on July 27, 1953, the U.S. still had not acquired a MiG-15 for flight-testing.

On Sept. 21, 1953, a MiG-15bis (a more advanced version of the original MiG-15) suddenly landed downwind at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, South Korea, greatly surprising the personnel there. The plane was piloted by 21-year old Senior Lt. No Kum-Sok of the North Korean Air Force, who had long before decided to escape to South Korea.

Lt. No Kum-Sok’s MiG-15bis next to an F-86 at Kimpo Air Base about five minutes after he had landed. This photo was taken without permission from the rear of a passing truck.

 

The MiG-15b is secured in a hangar at Kimpo Air Base.

 

Repainted in USAF markings and insignia, the MiG-15bis under guard and awaiting flight-testing at Okinawa.