Actor Clark Gable poses in the waist gun of a B-17 Flying Fortress - June, 1943. He graduated OCS, eventually becoming a major. He flew in 5 combat missions as some kind of observer/gunner. One mission to Germany, his plane was hit by flak, lost an engine, attacked by fighters, had one crewman killed, and a piece of schrapnel went through his boot. When MGM studios found out, they begged the Air Corps to reassign him. Nice colorizing job on this photo.

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A Boeing B-29 Superfortress of the 9th Bomb Group comes in for a landing on Iwo Jima, March 10, 1945. Note P-51D Mustang in the foreground.


Landing of B-29

A group of P-51’s from the 45th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group over Iwo Jima. Mount Suribachi seen in the foreground; March 7, 1945.