#Bell P-39 Airacobra

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Bell P-39 Airacobra under construction on October 1943.

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Artwork by Walter L. Greene, commissioned by General Electric: link

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Eagle and MASK No. 358, dated 28 January 1989. Johnny Red cover by Sandy James. The plane shown is the Bell P-39 Airacobra which had its engine situated behind the pilot leaving room for a high-powered cannon in the nose section. A 10 foot long shaft had to run through the cockpit between the pilots legs to drive the propeller which the pilots and mechanics weren't keen on. It had been the first US built fighter to enter service with the RAF and arrived with 601 Squadron around July 1941. By early 1942 the RAF had stopped using them and the bulk of the aircraft were transferred to the Soviets. One problem identified was that it didn't perform well at height (over 15,000 feet) and this wasn't as important on the Russian Front.

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Rainy day at Duxford

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1941-42. Bell P-39 Airacobra's of 601 (County of London) Sqn RAuxAF. Known as the 'Millionaires Sqn' because of its affluent pilots who drove sports cars, took expensive holidays, wore red socks and had private planes. But they were no less tough and dedicated combat pilots achieving 220 victories in WWII. (FTP)

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#VoxPop During World War II, radio's Vox Pop broadcast from defense plants nationwide. On September 7, 1942, the show broadcast from the Bell Aircraft plant in Buffalo, NY. Warren Hull interviewed 27-year-old Jean Guthrie from the cockpit of a P-39 Airacobra under construction.

Her job was to test the P-39 engines and make adjustments as necessary. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jean and her family arrived in the United States in 1923 and settled in Kenmore, NY. She married Lt. John H. Mercer of the Bronx, NY, in 1943 and passed away in 2006 at 91.

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The only unit ever built of the Bell XFL Airabonita. A navalized version of the P-39 Airacobra with tail wheel instead of tricicle landing gear an other modifications. Landing gear would prove troubled and a lack of power (not using a supercharger) made the USN reject the project.

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Bell P-39 Airacobra

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1944 01 Makin P-39Q Airacobra Spare Parts 46 FS, 15 FG Lt. Ben Warren - Stan Hajek

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Ingenuity as someone has pointed out s one of the real secret weapons of American soldiers . And to prove the point, the story has just drifted back to this country about how a group of mechanical-minded boys in a South Pacific theater took a bullet-riddled plane, a collection of odds and ends, a lot of elbow-grease and, with these ingredients, put together a fighter plane that no one expected to see . They started with a wrecked Bell Aircraft Airacobra (P-39) shot down in combat by the Japs. It was all ready for the junk heap. But they scrambled around and put together enough salvaged parts to put the plane back into flying trim again. Appropriately enough, they named the ship Spare Parts. Builders of the plane are members of the Sky Riders Squadron of the 7th Air Force. Written off the books, no longer boasting a serial number, the reborn fighter, at last reports, was still doing a job in the air .

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In snowy weather, instead of a tire on the front landing gear, it was common to use a dog.

BTW that’s a Bell P-39 Airacobra

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Bell P-400 (P-39) Airacobra. RAF 601 Sqdn. At Duxford

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WW2 Fighter planes and Coca-Cola?!

Coca-Cola has done a lot of posters with American planes. Throughout their history, posters have been a significant means of mass communication, often with striking visual effect.

We digitally restored this absolutely fantastic collection of 18 rare art from 1943! Each is a full colour detailed illustration of various WW2 era US aircraft painted by “Heaslip.”

Each illustration has white/gold luster border and we have tried to digitally restore as close to the original as possible. At the bottom of each illustration is the Coca-Cola logo and a pair of bottles. At the bottom right are captions identifying the plane with statistics. The prints will be clear as possible from the 1943 prints.

Size is 30x40cms and you can choose to have it framed or not. These posters were framed and hung in bottling plant lobbies, schools, and other places. Students were instructed on the airplanes so that they knew the difference between friendly planes and enemy aircraft in preparation for bomb drills.

Vintage World War Two Coke posters of this type are some of the most desirable on the market today! These are getting harder and harder to find. So now MapTree gives you an opportunity to own these gems and create your own gallery to have a bourbon in your hands and wander back into those smoke filled skies of WW2!

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All the 18 posters are READY to be ordered and owned or gifted!

Bell P-39 "Airacobra" U.S. Army - Pursuit Brewster SB2A-1 "Buccaneer" U.S. Navy - Dive Bomber Consolidated B-24 "Liberator" U.S. Army- Long Range Bomber Consolidated PBY-5 "Catalina" U.S. Navy - Patrol Bomber Curtiss SB2C-1 "Hell Diver" U.S. Navy- Dive Bomber Douglas A-20 Boston Douglas B-19 "Guardian of a Hemisphere" U.S. Army - Long Patrol Bomber Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" U.S. Navy- Fighter Waco Glider CG-4 U.S. Army- Troop Transport Consolidated PB2Y-2 "Coronado" U.S. Navy - Patrol Bomber Curtiss P-40-F "Warhawk" U.S. Army - Pursuit Douglas SBD "Dauntless" U.S. Navy- Dive Bomber Grumman TBF-1 "Avenger" U.S. Navy- Torpedo Bomber Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" U.S. Army- Pursuit Interceptor Martin B-26 "Marauder" U.S. Army - Medium Range Bomber North American B-25 "Mitchell" U.S. Army-Medium Range Bomber Vought-Sikorsky F4U-1 "Corsair" U.S. Navy- Fighter Vultee Trainer- U.S. Army

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Lieutenant Colonel Lee Andrew Archer, Jr. (September 6, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was a fighter pilot in the 332nd Fighter Group, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, during WWII. He was one of the first African American military aviators in the Army Air Corps, the Army Air Forces, and the Air Force.

He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father was Lee Archer, Sr. and his mother was May Piper Archer. He was raised in Harlem and attended New York City’s Dewitt Clinton High School. He left NYU where he was majoring in international relations to join the military. He applied to become a pilot in the Army Air Corps but was rejected because the Corps did not allow African Americans to become pilots during this time.

During WWII, he flew 169 combat missions, including bomber escort, reconnaissance, and ground attack.

He is considered by some as the first and as of 2010, only African American pilot to earn an “ace” designation, for shooting down at least five enemy aircraft. He claimed and was acknowledged to have shot down only four planes. His supposed ace status was mentioned in news articles through the time of his death when it was stated as fact in several obituaries. The original records of his duty were clear. He destroyed six aircraft on the ground during a strafing mission in August 1944, as well as several locomotives, motor transports, and barges.

As a combat pilot, nicknamed “Buddy”, he flew 169 combat missions in the European Theatre of World War II, flying the Bell P-39 Airacobra, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, and North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft. Flying a P-51C fighter with the distinctive red tail of the 332nd Fighter Group, known collectively as the “Tuskegee Airmen”, he scored his first victory, a Messerschmitt Bf 109 on July 18, 1944, over Memmingen, Germany.

He is remembered for his exploits of October 12, 1944. Amid a furious series of dogfights over German-occupied Hungary, he shot down three Hungarian Bf 109s over Lake Balaton, Hungary, in engagements that spanned only 10 minutes. He married Ina Burdell. The couple had four children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #sigmapiphi

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P-39 Airacobra New Tool Announced

Arma Hobby announced during the Babaryba Warsaw Modelling Festival, that a 1:48 Bell P-39 Airacobra tool will soon be released. Announcement of the P-39 Airacobra 1/48 model kit 31-05-2024 We are pleased to announce the Bell P-39Q Airacobra aircraft model kit in 1/48 scale. What’s inside the box? The first kit contains markings and decals for the Q variant, however the plastic sprues enable you…

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Kelly with Legacy Flight Museum’s P-39 Airacobra

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Bell P-39 Airacobra.

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25 agosto 1944, la morte del miglior cacciatore italiano del secondo conflitto mondiale

Il 25 agosto del 1944 muore per un incidente aereo Teresio Vittorio Martinoli. Con 22 abbattimenti personali accertati, 14 in collaborazione e 12 probabili, è considerato il più grande asso della caccia italiana nel secondo conflitto mondiale. Il tragico incidente avvenne durante un’esercitazione sui Bell P-39 Airacobra forniti all’Aeronautica Cobelligerante. In aggiunta alle due medaglie…