Category: Army Air Corps & Army Air Service
AT-12 Guardsman
Republic AT-12 (41-17509) was a two-seat trainer version of the P-35. Built for the Swedish air force, The AT-12 and other foreign-bound aircraft were impounded by the US early in WWII. This AT-12, like most of the impounded aircraft, entered US service.
Washington National Guard’s 116th Observation Squadron. Douglas O-38 (30-414) and a Consolidated O-17 Courier (28-360)
De Havilland DH-4’s ready to haul the mail at Reno
P-12C 31-168
Douglas O-2H’s, 91st Observation Squadron, Mather Field, 1929
Douglas O-25
Emblazoned with a Wright Field arrowhead, and a complimentary decal from the Prestone company.
Doolittle’s Raiders before they were famous.
Crews of the 17th Bomb Group and their B-25’s in the summer of 1941. Sharp-eyed viewers will spot several of the men who will soon become forever famous as Doolittle’s Tokyo raiders. Photo #1 has the future author of “30 Seconds Over Tokyo”, Ted Lawson, on the right.
Crissy Field
Crissy Field in California wasn’t huge, but it was one of the better known airfields of its day. Photo #1 shows O-2’s of the 91st Observation Squadron. Photo 2, taken a few years earlier, has a pilot of the same squadron taking a smoke break with his O-25.
Alaskan Flight B-10
The Martin B-10 was many things, but it will always be associated with its newsworthy flight to Alaska in 1934. Here, the boss of that mission, Major Hap Arnold, discusses things with some of the locals.
Keystone bombers roar past Albrook Field in the Canal Zone
Douglas O-38’s
33rd Division, Illinois National Guard. Aircraft #3 is 31-363, #6 is 31-366.
Stearman Factory in Wichita
Seversky BT-8, Randolph Field
P-35, 1st Pursuit Group, Selfridge Field
Traveling Space-A in a military plane was more adventurous in the 1920’s
Douglas YOA-5
Great airplane, but the Air Corps bought only one.
A handsome pair of OA-4B seaplanes
The first wears the insignia of the 30th Bomb Squadron which flew the OA-4B from 1932-36.
O-46, 118th Observation Squadron
O-38 (33-7), 115th Observation Squadron
Douglas O-38
Air Corps Detachment, Bolling Field, DC.
O-25C, 16th Observation Squadron
Thomas-Morse O-19
120th Observation Squadron, Colorado National Guard.
Douglas O2H
The Jive Bomber 