This post was originally published as Memory Monday, Week 80, in August 2018.

The pilots and ground crews worked very hard at keeping the planes in the air; but every once in awhile things didn’t go as planned.

Two views of a B-24 Liberator after a hard landing:

Prop damage to a P-51

B-25 Mitchell bomber

This used to be a plane!

This P-51 must have collided with an ambulance on the ground