# Outstanding WWII Aviation Pictures

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outstanding-wwii-aviation-pictures/802991>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 28, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outstanding-wwii-aviation-pictures/802991 "2017-11-28T23:57:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outstanding-wwii-aviation-pictures/802991/21 "2017-12-02T02:33:17Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> [Airplane Rescue](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wp0V/2017-ram-1500-airplane-rescue-song-by-anderson-east)
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> .

Thanks, that’s awesome.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outstanding-wwii-aviation-pictures/802991/22 "2017-12-02T03:34:20Z")

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> [@snfaulkner](#):
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> Seeing all these fighters and bombers all loaded with .50 cal machine guns makes me wonder how many guns were produced in the war.

Not to mention all the ammo. Just think of all the metal that was just dumped all over Europe in those years. I saw a picture of a guy shoveling spent shell casings out of a B-17.

Where did it all come from? 😕

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outstanding-wwii-aviation-pictures/802991/23 "2017-12-02T04:28:07Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Incidentally, there’s a new Dodge Ram commercial that has an F6F Hellcat in it.

> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> [Airplane Rescue](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wp0V/2017-ram-1500-airplane-rescue-song-by-anderson-east)

It looks like they’re doing a whole series with lyrics from [Forever Young](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMm6VojPko)\*.

- I was a part of that one

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outstanding-wwii-aviation-pictures/802991/24 "2017-12-02T23:34:28Z")

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[Shark’s teeth](http://worldwarwings.com/real-reason-p-40s-shark-teeth-people-get-wrong/?a=mk&var=flying+tigers-ww2&utm_campaign=flying+tigers&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=original-ww2-mk&utm_content=informational)

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> The first documented use of this nose art was by the Zerstörergeschwader 76 group of the Luftwaffe. Formed in 1939…

The American Volunteer Group, the ‘Flying Tigers’, did not originate the shark’s teeth motif. The article is correct about that. But they’re wrong that the design originated in 1939.

[Here](http://flyingmachines.ru/Images7/Putnam/German/158-1.jpg) is a Roland C.IIa circa 1916. [Profile illustration](http://www.wwiaviation.com/drawings/LFG-Roland-CII-Shark-Mouth-Pilot-Unit-Unknown-sn-2-600px.png), [model](https://d3fa68hw0m2vcc.cloudfront.net/22a/119579080.jpeg).

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