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In August 1945, after more than five years of vicious fighting, the worst war the world had ever experienced was finally over. Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, which he boasted would last a thousand years, was gone after only 12 years. Germany lay in ruins. It had been ravaged from the air by the Royal Air Force’s Bomber Command at night, and by America’s mighty Eighth Air Force by day. As for Japan, more than 60 cities important to the war effort had been fire-bombed into oblivion, hundreds of thousands of Japanese had died in massive conflagrations, and the population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had suffered the horrors of atomic weapons.
The Model 195 proved to be more popular than the Model 190, with more than 860 built from 1947-1954. Both airplanes featured a spacious, well-appointed cabin. (Robert J. Pickett Collection/Textron Aviation)
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