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A walk around and instructional video on the B-24 Liberator, also known among USAAF personnel as the "Flying Coffin", as the aircraft was considered difficult to fly and had cumbersome and heavy controls. Other than that it did one hell of a job in WWII, with over 18,000 units produced. It had two bomb bays, and was armed with ten M-2 .50 caliber machine guns in various configurations. Following are two videos to enjoy. B-24 WALK AROUND: THE FLYING COFFIN:

This video is an excellent presentation of the B-17 Flying Fortress "Aluminum Overcast" regarding its engines and systems. Designed in 1935, the B-17 was years ahead of its time, and proved itself as the toughest and most dependable heavy bomber of World War Two. There were examples of Flying Fortresses returning from battle that had no business at all in continuing to fly, but they brought the USAAF airmen home. Enjoy!

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II-era American piston-engined fighter aircraft. Developed for the United States Army Air Corps, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork-tailed devil (German: der Gabelschwanz-Teufel) by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one pilot" by the Japanese. Along with its use as a general fighter, the P-38 was utilized in various aerial combat roles including as a highly effective fighter-bomber, a night fighter, and as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks. The P-38 was also used as a bomber-pathfinder, guiding streams of medium and heavy bombers; or even other P-38s, equipped with bombs, to their targets. Used in the aerial reconnaissance role, the P-38 would account for 90 percent of the aerial film captured over Europe. The P-38 was used most successfully in the Pacific Theater of Operations and the China-Burm...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers, the Boeing entry (prototype Model 299/XB-17) outperformed both competitors and exceeded the Air Corps' performance specifications.

Before: A pissed-off American After: Tons of smoked Japanese Of all the weapons of the Second World War, the dive bomber is among the most iconic and significant of them. The Japanese used them to great effect in the attack on Pearl Harbor and their subsequent more-or-less simultaneous offensives elsewhere in Asia, and the U.S. Navy used them to even greater effect during the Battle of Midway, where dive bombers sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers and essentially turned the tide of the war in the Pacific.  On their way to war However, it was a trio of a certain type of dive bomber that took off in the early morning hours of September 1, 1939 with the mission of severing the wires of explosive charges attached to the Dirschau bridge over the Vistula River that the dive bomber would achieve a singularly unique infamy. The Red Baron in black-and-white Manfred Freiherr von Richtofen, who was an actual aristocrat (Freiherr roughly translat...

From Wikipedia: The Vought F4U Corsair is an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Designed and initially manufactured by Chance Vought, the Corsair was soon in great demand; additional production contracts were given to Goodyear, whose Corsairs were designated FG, and Brewster, designated F3A. The Corsair was designed and operated as a carrier-based aircraft and entered service in large numbers with the U.S. Navy in late 1944 and early 1945. It quickly became one of the most capable carrier-based fighter-bombers of World War II. Some Japanese pilots regarded it as the most formidable American fighter of World War II, and its naval aviators achieved an 11:1 kill ratio. Yet early problems with carrier landings and logistics allowed it to be eclipsed as the dominant carrier-based fighter by the Grumman F6F Hellcat, powered by the same Double Wasp engine first flown on the Corsair's first prototype in 1940. Instead, the Corsair...