Postcards Collection

New Orleans Airport, New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1944

Caption reads:

New Orleans' Airport. America's finest comined land and seaplane base. Erected at a cost of over $4,500,000, is fully equipped and has the A-T-A rating of the Department of Commerce. It is located on an artificial peninsula on Lake Pontchartrain, about six miles northeast of New Orleans. Its four asphalt runways each extend over 3,000 feet in length. It also has a seaplane ramp at the east end of the field.

Tags: Airports, Louisiana, 1940's, Aviation

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Island Target Range for Mac Dill Field Bombers at Tampa, Fla. circa 1945

Caption reads:

This gulf island is used exclusively for target practice by Mac Dill Field bombers. Mac Dill Field is the largest bombardment base in the Southeast.

Tags: 1940's, Aviation, Military, Florida

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M-2 - Bell-Built B-29 Superfortress

Front caption reads:

Leaving the Factory Assembly Line, Bell Bomber Plant, Marietta, Ga.

Tags: Aircraft, Aviation, Military, Georgia

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Grumman F4F-3 - U.S. Navy Fighter

Caption reads:

A single seat, all metal, mid-wing fighter, the F4F-3 is one of the latest fighters for the U.S. Navy. It is powered with a twin-row Pratt and Whitney motor and is equipped with a Curtiss electric constant speed propeller.

Tags: Aircraft, U.S. Navy, Aviation, Military

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Keep 'Em Flying - Scout Bombers

No caption on reverse.

Tags: Aircraft, Aviation, Military

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Martin B-26 Bomber

Caption on reverse reads:

An arsenal for bombardment and self-defense in air combat ... the new Martin B-26 flying torpedo for the U.S. Army is now in mass-production. A streamlined, semi-high-wing medium bomber ... with retracting tricycle landing gear ... two 18 cylinder, 1850-horsepower engines ... gross weight of 26,625 pounds ... the B-26 is the single mass-production type which Martin is manufacturing for the Army.

Tags: Aircraft, Aviation, Military

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Martin Bomber - The Navy's New Aerial Sentries Of The Sea

Caption reads:

The New Martin PBM 40,000 lb. Navy Patrol Bomber. This Battleship of the Air can patrol in 2 1/2 hours a distance which would require a destroyer 24 hours to cover.

Tags: Aircraft, U.S. Navy, Aviation, Military

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The Spirit of St. Louis, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution

No caption on reverse

Tags: Aircraft, Aviation

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Vought-Sikorsky XF4U-1 Navy Fighter

Caption on reverse reads:

This Navy Fighter has a greater cruising range than most Fighter planes and can attain a speed of over 400 M.P.H.

Tags: Aircraft, U.S. Navy, Aviation, Military

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The XPBS-1 of the U.S. Navy on the Take-Off

Caption reads:

This huge flying boat of the U.S. Navy is but one of our ever growing air armada. In these days of modern warfare, the air force has become the most important branch of the armed forces of the country.

Tags: Aircraft, U.S. Navy, Aviation, Military

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Boston in the Future

Bigger, Better, Busier

No caption on reverse.

Tags: Boston, MA, Massachusetts, Railroad, Subway, Aviation, Aircraft, Automobiles

Wilmington, Vt., in the Future

Wilmington, VT.

South River St.

No caption on reverse.

Tags: Vermont, Railroad, Subway, Aviation, Aircraft, Automobiles

The Aeroplane returning to the beach after a flight along the ocean front. Atlantic City, N.J.

No caption on reverse

Tags: Aircraft, Aviation, Atlantic City, NJ, New Jersey

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I have created this webpage as a scrapbook of sorts to showcase some of the more interesting postcards from my postcard collection. Much of my collection is inherited from my grandmother, Mildred E. Berwick Casartello. I have categorized the postcards in various groups, so you will find them on multiple pages. The tags line at the bottom of each postcard entry has links to each category that you will find that entry on.