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Philippine Army Air Corps Insignia
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Army graduates flyers
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2d Observation Squadron Douglas O-46A 36-139
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Captain Jesus Villamor on his P-26 Peashooter Fighter Plane before take-off.
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P-40B of the 20th Pursuit Squadron just chewed the tail of another P-40B at Nichols Field in early-mid 1941.
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A P-40B being assembled at the Philippine Air Depot (Nielson Field).
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A photo of 34th Pursuit Squadron P-35A with the Japanese at Orani Airfield
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Another O-46s that went belly up at Nichols Field.
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Martin B-10B
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Curtiss P-40E
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P-35, P-26s and ZB3A Kesystone Bomber.
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Iba Airfield.
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Boeing P-26a. Jesus Villamor's 6th Pursuit Squadron had twelve Boeing P-26s.
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A parked Boeing P-26 Fighter Plane. Only two have survived to this day.
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P-40B being uncrated at Nielson Field, which served as the Manila Air Depot.
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Early Philippine Army Air Corps pilots.
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Two Douglas O-46 in flight.
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Douglas B-18A
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Boeing B-17D. On the first day of the Pacific War, all but one or two of the US Far East Air Force B-17s were destroyed by the Japanese.
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Philippine Air Force F-5 Jet Fighter
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P-35A landing at Iba Airfield, in Zambales. By December 1941, there were 52 P-35s stationed in the Philippines.
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Capt. Jesus Villamor (with white scarf) and his squadron mates at Nichols field (December 1941)
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Air Mustang-32
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Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur congratulates Captain Jesus Villamor, and confers on him the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross with an Oak Leaf Cluster. Manila, December, 1941
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PAAC hangar in Zablan Field, Camp Murphy (now Camp Aguinaldo). c. 1939-1940
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Boeing B-17D Heavy Bomber of the US Army Air Corps at Iba Zambales.
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MacArthur at the induction of the Philippine Army Air Corps at Camp Murphy (now Camp Aguinaldo).
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Douglas B-18 Bomber at Clark.
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Martin B-10 Bomber at Nichols Field (now Villamor Air Base).
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One of the few remaining P-40Es at a camouflaged revetment at the Bataan Airfield.
