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A flight of new P-84Bs from the 14th Fighter Group at Dow Air Force Base, Bangor. The 14th was stationed at Dow from 1946-1949 and was the first unit in the USAF to receive the P-84B. Note that none of the aircraft have yet been painted with the diagonal stripes on the vertical stabilizer, which all 14th Group Thunderjets later received.The second aircraft from bottom is flown by Maj. Herbert Hawes, who later died in a crash on Chick Hill in Amherst. The 14th's pilots were a who's who list of WWII aces.

 

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The Bangor and Aroostook train is arriving at Presque Isle with about three flatcars of Farmall Tractors. People often gathered at the station to see special arrivals.Typical is the arrival of the Northern Maine Fair rides and amusements by rail.

 

The Flying Yankee at the Biddeford train station, ca. 1950

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The Flying Yankee, when it was running under the name The Cheshire taken from the Biddeford train station, looking towards the Elm Street over-pass bridge, circa 1950. The Saco-Lowell building is visible in background, as are the homes along the Hooper Street area, which burned down in a massive fire in 1963. The Flying Yankee ran from Bangor/Portland to Boston 6 days a week from April 1935 until it was retired in May 1957.

 

A little new,(1977), but interesting. It's a coffee shop and gift store. I stayed there in a "fantasuite". Dodgeville, Wisc.
Check out the landing.
http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38436

 

WOW, thanks for sharing this great history.
This looks like one built in Burbank, I will have to do some investigating..

 

That is one great story about the plane.

 

The courage to say no.

The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowed, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labour for marrying a Jewish woman.
We know little else about August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in that moment.

 

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I remember this being in the hobby shops when I was a kid. Not really from France. It was an American release and the closest it got to french speaking people was in Quebec. It was a marketing strategy to sell kits.

 

OK, what is the car on the turntable? It appears to be adjacent to the Packard display and may have a trophy sitting on the trunk.

 

Looks like Packard tail lights, but the middle of the car looks GMish.

 

It might not have been as conspicuous as it looks to us today. The Kriegsmarine never adopted the nazi salute within it's ranks...but retained classic salute throughout the period, even during the war. Hitler did not understand the navy experience and they likely didn't understand him (or maybe they did and made a statement by their traditions). Have no idea if our man there had time in that service, however.

 

XP-67 Moonbat

 

1954 Packard Panther show car!

 

What about the" Iceburg" gas station that was in New Mexico?

 

1907 somewhere probably in the Panhandle since the photographer was from Guymon.

1935 duststorm in Guymon.

 

And lets not forget the Draft

 

I got my hand stuck in the barrel doing just that as a kid

 

I'm behind, so my apologies if someone else has replied. This looks like a Indian Trading Post on the north side of I-40 just before you get into Arizona. My wife and I have been in here. The buildings are newer, but might be built around these buildings. The merchandise is OK, but if you really want some good stuff, go to some of the Trading Posts in Gallup, or on the Square at Santa Fe. (My Cherokee wife still refers to herself as Indian, not Native, by the way).

 

The swastika was an Indian symbol of more than one tribe. At least one of the tribes had a ceremony which disavowed the swastika's use in their ceremonies. Notice, it is backward to Hitler's. Fort Smith, Arkansas still has a building (last I looked) which has a swastika (pre-war) on it's trim on the roof-top.