Airplane Postcards

Airplane Postcards

A couple more airplane postcards that grandpa brought home for grandma.  These all have the usual postcard markings on the back but weren’t written on.  In order, left to right and top to bottom are the Boeing B17E Flying Fortress, P-38 Interceptor, the Ryan PT-22, and the Douglas A20A Army Attack Bomber which is noted as, “The Fastest Bomber in the World.”  These were likely all collected around 1941-1945 or so, though likely closer to the 1941 date since that’s when grandpa was stationed in Texas with the US Army Air Force.  He may have brought these home to show grandma the planes he was seeing everyday while on base, even though he wasn’t a pilot, I’m sure he spent time around the field and saw/heard these all the time.

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