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SECOND WORLD WAR
Anything dealing exclusively with the Air War of WWII. General conflict, air arm-specific and type-specific sites will be found here. Also, subjects from the immediate pre and post-war years will be included.
I've noticed that all of the British walkaround links from the Photobucket site are dead. The links themselves are good, I just have to present them as simple links instead of hyperlinks. I'm in the middle of separating this thread into different specialized threads and this will be corrected real-soon-like, so please bear with me for a bit...
Britain / UK
Anson
Anson Walkaround Shots - This is a Photobucket album by a fella named Mark Mills (aka lasermonkey) which contains some nice detail & general shots of a few different Avro Ansons.
Blenheim
Blenheim Walkaround Shots - This is a Photobucket album by a fella named Mark Mills (aka lasermonkey) which contains some nice detail & general shots of R3821 both before and after its accident.
Fury
Fury Walkaround Shots - This is a Photobucket album by a fella named Mark Mills (aka lasermonkey) which contains some nice detail & general shots of Hawker Fury K1930 (Replica) while it was still with the Shuttleworth Collection.
Gladiator
Gladiator Walkaround Shots - This is a Photobucket album by a fella named Mark Mills (aka lasermonkey) which contains some nice detail and general shots of the Gloster Gladiator which is part of the Shuttleworth Collection.
Hind
Hind Walkaround Shots - This is a Photobucket album by a fella named Mark Mills (aka lasermonkey) which contains some nice detail and general shots of the Hawker Hind which is part of the Shuttleworth Collection.
Lysander
Lysander Walkaround Shots - This is a Photobucket album by a fella named Mark Mills (aka lasermonkey) which contains some nice detail and general shots of a couple different Westland Lysanders.
Nimrod
Nimrod Walkaround Shots - This is a Photobucket album by a fella named Mark Mills (aka lasermonkey) which contains some nice detail and general shots of the Hawker Nimrod which is part of the Shuttleworth Collection.
Spitfire
Spit IX Walkaround Shots - This is a Photobucket album by a fella named Mark Mills (aka lasermonkey) which contains some nice detail and general shots of a few different Mk.IX Spits.
Spit Vb Walkaround Shots - This is a Photobucket album by a fella named Mark Mills (aka lasermonkey) which contains some nice detail and general shots of a few different Mk.V Spits.
Spit Vc Walkaround Shots - This is a Photobucket album by a fella named Mark Mills (aka lasermonkey) which contains some nice detail and general shots of Spit Vc AR501.
Germany
Bf 109
The 109 Lair, part of the hobbyvista/hyperscale group, is one of the premiere Bf 109 reference sites on the net and has been a fave of mine since I discovered it. It's run by Lynn Ritger, THE 109 authority, in my book.
You'll find profiles & technical information, theme articles, walkarounds, modeling info, videos and much more on this site. Also, there is a sub-site full of pages of walkaround material dealing with other aircraft types, both WWII and post-war aircraft. It's called The Detail Site and contains some really excellent photo reference. Anyhoo, if you love 109's, you'll have to venture into the lair...
Messerschmitt Bf 109B-1 - From the MOSKIT site, this is an outstanding collection of period photos in what amounts to a walkaround of a Bf 109B-1. The subject aircraft was in Russian hands when these photos were taken, possibly having been 'acquired' during the Spanish Civil War.
General Luftwaffe
Triplane.net - German Warbirds in South Africa is a relatively new site, if I'm not mistaken. There are a several walkaround galleries listed, although only three or four, an Me 262B-1a, Bf 109E-3 and Fw 190A-6, are actually there; the rest being 'under construction'. There's some nice images here which will be useful to the modeler.
Luftwaffe Archives & Records Reference Group is basically a collection of links. There are a few duds here, but also many excellent sites for the Luftwaffe modeler and enthusiast.
Italy
SM.79 Sparviero
Savoia Marchetti Sm. 79 "Sparviero" is a page from an Italian modeling site, I believe. There are some pretty nice 3-view type drawings, for those who like that kind of stuff. There are also 22 different Sparvieros illustrated both with a photo and a color profile. Also included for each subject is a short description in Italian and English. The profiles are fairly well done, with the photos being medium sized and of varying quality, although the majority of them are fairly clear.
General Regia Aeronautica Italiana
Regia Aeronautica Italiana is an excellent site with dozens of great images portraying the Italian Air Force in WWII. The images are large, mostly of good quality and several are in color. This is a must see...
Japan
A5M Claude
Mitsubishi A5M2 Claude" - From the MOSKIT site, this is an outstanding collection of period photos in what amounts to a walkaround of an A5M2. The subject aircraft was in Russian hands when these photos were taken, most likely having been 'acquired' during the Russian-Japanese conflict over Manchukuo during 1938.
General IJNAF & IJAAF
J-Aircraft.com is one of the better online resources for Japanese aircraft of WWII.
Russia / Soviet Union
LaGG-3
NEW LaGG-3 Lakirovanny Garantirovanny Grob (Varnished Guaranteed Coffin) - This is another excellent work by Massimo Tessitori and is hosted on Soviet Warplanes.com.
La-7
Lost in Time... The Misadventures of Ivan Kozhedub's Famous "White 27" is an invaluable bit of reference for those who have an interest in Ivan Kozhedub or in the VVS in general. Once you get past the author's pompous remarks and tearing apart of others' research, there is actually some useful and enlightening information here regarding the La-7 flown by Ivan Kozhedub, the Soviet Union's leading ace of WWII.
MiG-3
MiG-3 Family is a reference work by Massimo Tessitori and is THE online MiG-3 resource as of this writing. You just have to grunge through it and see what's there. Groovy stuff...
Here's an alternate URL for Massimo's MiG-3 site from his VVS research page...
General Red Air Force
Soviet Warplanes.com is a new site as of February 2004. Although I like to list sites which contain alotta info and/or photos, this one, having relatively little at the moment, shows great promise. So I'll keep it here for the time being. This is the home of Massimo's MiG-3 pages...
Lend-lease on airforce.ru is a site co-run by a pal of mine and which deals with Russian lend-lease in WWII, mostly aircraft. This is yet another site with original material, most of which which can be found nowhere else!
USA
P-38 Lightning
P-38 Walkaround is a page on the Project XP-38N website and consists of almost 200 photos of four different P-38's, including the EAA's 'Marge', 'Glacier Girl' and POF's 'Porky II'.
P-40 Warhawk
Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk is a page on the Kiwi Aircraft Images site and includes almost 80 shots of Hawks which could, at one time or another, be found in New Zealand. The images are generally medium-sized and range from decent to excellent quality. These are all pictures of Warbirds; no period shots here.
Curtiss P-40C Walkaround Shots - This is a page with 32 detail shots of the Tomahawk which is on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation. This P-40 is actually a composite of a couple different airframes and there are doubts as to the accuracy in certain areas of this 'restoration'. Despite this, and the fact that not all restorations should be taken at face value for use as modeling reference, this is the only decent early P-40 walkaround which I've come across. Until I find something better, this'll have to do...
Here's an alternate link for the same walkaround.
P-47 Thunderbolt
Republic P-47N is a walkaround page with photos of the P-47N that's on display at the USAF Armament Museum at Eglin AFB.
P-51 Mustang
Swiss Mustangs is a site dedicated to the P-51 in general, but more specifically to those which flew under the Swiss flag. There's alotta photos on this site, including a good number of color shots, although they're all kinda smallish. Regardless, many of the images on this site can be found nowhere else. If you're into Stangs, this is a cool site to grunge around on.
Modeller's Guide to Early P-51 Mustang Variants - This is a page on the IPMS Stockholm site which deals with the Allison-engined variants of the P-51. Despite what one may infer from the title of the article, there's little in the way of photos on this page. Matter, of fact, there's a grand total of just four images. There is, however, a wealth of information which may be useful to some modelers, and certainly to the researcher/historian, including a list of serials. This is a good web article for those who'd like to learn a bit about the history of the Mustang.
Modeller's Guide to Late P-51 Mustang Variants - This is a continuation of the article on the page above and deals with the Merlin-powered variants of the P-51. As above, this page's strong suit is information. There are eleven images this time around, though, and they are, on the whole, a bit more useful to the modeler. Included are a list of serials and a list of the USAAF and RAF units which operated the P-51.
8th Air Force
Little Friends is another one of my absolute favorite websites. It deals with the Fighter Groups of the 'Mighty Eighth' in WWII. With hundreds of photos (if not over a thousand) and very detailed info on the aircraft assigned to each Group, this is one of the most complete reference sites you'll see on the web concerning this subject. And it keeps getting better.
Bud Anderson's P-51 Mustang 'OLD CROW' Web Page may have started off as just a web page but it's grown into quite a large site. Being that Bud was a 'Yoxford Boy', this site is dedicated almost exclusively to the 357th FG in WWII. The webmeister is Bud's son, Jim Anderson and the content is drawn heavily from Merle Olmstead, 357th FG historian, author and all around swell guy. Merle was also a crew chief with the 357th.
There's over twenty pages of historical photos and many others with a variety of information. Some of the photos are kinda small, and not all the best quality, but you won't find much of it anywhere else. But the really neat thing about this site is the fact that there's a special section just for the model builder where there's an ongoing project to build as many 357th Stangs as possible, with participants from all over the world.
If you're into P-51's, the 357th, the Mighty Eighth, the European Air War or WWII in general, this page is a must-see.
12th Air Force
NEW The 489th Bombardment Squadron in Corsica - At first this looks like any other tribute page which some fella has put together for a relative; in this case the webmaster's father who crewed B-25's of the 489th BS, 340th BG.
However, upon grunging around a bit, this site leaves most other 'tributes' behind. WAY behind. The site has tons of links to additional pages, the most fruitful being the third link from the top, 'The 489th Base and Planes' where you'll find more links to 21 pages of aircraft photos. There's a few bad images here and there, but mostly this stuff is excellent and a good number of the shots on these 21 pages are in color. If you like cheesecake nose art, then you have to check this site out!
Also, if you're familiar with the B-25 'Briefing Time', this is the squadron with which the original 'Briefing Time' served.
General US Airpower in WWII
Web Birds.com is a site covering mostly WWII USAAF units in all theatres; ETO, MTO, PTO & CBI. LOTSA pictures, the vast majority of which you will NOT see anywhere else. This is one of my faves...
(Jim has just begun to add USN units, although there's not much to see... yet.)
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