Greetings gentlemen,

What better start to the New Year than with another jolly test?

I am confident that the usual high standard will be forthcoming.

Well now. I am pretty terrible, but here's a quick bash.

1- Forts
2- Liberator
3- Me410
4- Erm, Daks?
5- Tante Ju
6- B25
7- Dak
8- Avenger
9- erm.. Japanese
10- and another
11- Beau.
12- Me410?
13- !
14- tail end Charlie about to open fire
15- erm. Allied. I think
16- Spit
17- MoreJaps- Dinah?
18- Fulmar?
19- YetmoreJaps
20- andyetmoreJaps
21- Friedrich/Gustav
22- Aha. My favourite (apart from the Hurri of course ) Where are her markings?
23- Hampden?
24- Ju88
25- Corsair
26- IL2
27- Mossie. Lovely.
28- Havoc.

There- good thing I would have been a Nav rather than an air gunner.

Just time for a quick stab at this

1. Lancaster
2. B-24
3. Me410
4. Dakota/C-47
5. Ju52 3m
6. B-25
7. Dakota/C-47
8. Avenger
9. H8K (IJN flying boat)
10. G4M "Betty"
11. Beaufighter, TF.X probably
12. Me410
13. J1N Gekko, the IJN nightfighter????
14. Lancaster
15. Albemarle
16. Spit (Mk9 maybe)
17. Ki.61 Hien "Tony"
18. Hurricane I think, poss a tropical Mk1
19. Imp. Japanese Army bomber, Ki21 maybe
20. A6M2N "Rufe" Zero floatplane
21. Bf109 (F or early G?)
22. Typhoon
23. G3M "Nell"
24. Ju-88
25. Corsair
26. Il2
27. Mosquito
28. Boston/A-20

1.B17s
2.B24j?
3.Me410
4.C47s
5.Ju52
6.B25
7.C47
8.TBM
9.***. Mavis Flying boat
10.***. Betty bomber
11.Beaufighter
12.Me210
13.***. Nick heavy fighter
14.Lanc
15.RAF Whitney
16.Spit MkV?
17.***. Hein Ki64?
18.Me108
19.***. Salley?
20.Zero/Rufe floatplanes
21.Me109F
22.Typhoon
23.***. Nell bomber
24.Ju88
25.Corsair
26.Il2
27.Mosquito
28.A20

"Better You Than Me!" FMJ

You might just be right on number 18, there Ivor. And to think I missed it!

Bader,

Even familiar types can be tricky at certain angles.
I put Dauntless for 25!

Sorry for omission of some of the numbers.

Gentlemen,

Good show by all. Didn't think anyone would get Albemarle.

Some of the Japanese types are;

9 Emily
13 Dinah
19 Sally

Ta!

Picture 25, looks like Corsair to me. Dauntless wings are much different. Can you tell us, from which source did you get this picture?

feniks,

25 is definately a Corsair.

These pages are from an old aircraft scrapbook of pasted-in cuttings, drawings, articles etc., which must have been mostly made up during the war.
It was given to me in the early fifties when I was in the Air Training Corps.

I have always presumed that the hand-written answers given for these tests are correct. The ATC had a very high standard for aircraft recognition and I would suppose that this is still the case.
Some flashcard tests were only up for a second or less!