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Posted: 6/2/2020 11:49:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/3/2020 12:28:35 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 13starsinax]
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 Fronte aereo - In un campo con i piloti del 2° gruppo caccia italiano. |
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Posted: 6/3/2020 12:36:31 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 13starsinax]
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1:08 Ju-88 dive bombing from the cockpit perspective
 Attività dell'aviazione tedesca su Malta |
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Posted: 6/3/2020 2:08:44 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/3/2020 2:11:40 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/3/2020 7:53:39 AM EDT
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Cobweb Camouflage on USS MINNEAPOLIS CA-36 in Tulagi Harbor 1944
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Posted: 6/3/2020 7:57:30 AM EDT
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USS Shipley Bay CVE-85
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Posted: 6/3/2020 1:27:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wtfboombrb: Cobweb Camouflage on USS MINNEAPOLIS CA-36 in Tulagi Harbor 1944 https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/369185/15911847435792109068620-1444890.jpg I think that's Dec. 1942 after Tassafaronga when she had her bow blown off. |
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Posted: 6/3/2020 1:35:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wtfboombrb: Fishing and hunting in Alaska would be a nice way to contribute to the war effort. Sign me up!  Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wtfboombrb: Originally Posted By piccolo: Originally Posted By Miami_JBT: Castner's Cutthroats https://natesalaskanadventure.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/img_2327-1.jpg https://akethnogirl.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/souvineers-cutthroat.jpeg https://natesalaskanadventure.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/img_2324-1.jpg https://natesalaskanadventure.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/img_2325-1.jpg Those guys were truly self sufficient. All they really needed to keep going was an occasional resupply of ammo and maybe medical supplies. They could easily supply their own food and water. Fishing and hunting in Alaska would be a nice way to contribute to the war effort. Sign me up! |
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Posted: 6/3/2020 3:13:20 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/3/2020 4:41:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By slama682: The wooden planking gave a better walking surface than the steel deck. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By slama682: Originally Posted By birdbarian: Originally Posted By 4v50: Detail of bridge structure of the HMS Rodney: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/HMS_Rodney_sailors_scrubbing_deck.jpg Note the dished out portion on the lower area of the tower bridge (and above the main deck). This is one subtle feature not found on her sister, HMS Nelson. I suspect it was for an AA gun that was never installed. The dished out feature was not done on the port side of Rodney's bridge either. Here it is again with the entire ship: https://i.imgur.com/nZ3H1jR.jpg Port side view of Rodney's bridge: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/19/34/801934ab0d7751985d66d5ef9ad61f63.png Here is her sister HMS Nelson: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/HMS_Nelson_off_Spithead_for_the_Fleet_Review.jpg Note the two QE class battleships behind her, two county class cruisers (three stacks) and a Leander class light cruiser behind them and possibly a Hawkins class heavy cruiser behind the Leander class. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2e/b6/ae/2eb6ae2142c9f2329ffde4f78643c721.jpg https://uboat.net/media/allies/warships/br/hms_nelson.jpg Thankful I never served on a ship with wooden decks. The wooden planking gave a better walking surface than the steel deck. Not when non-skid was applied. |
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Posted: 6/3/2020 6:06:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/3/2020 8:39:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/3/2020 9:37:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/3/2020 9:46:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dracster: I think that's Dec. 1942 after Tassafaronga when she had her bow blown off. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dracster: Originally Posted By wtfboombrb: Cobweb Camouflage on USS MINNEAPOLIS CA-36 in Tulagi Harbor 1944 https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/369185/15911847435792109068620-1444890.jpg I think that's Dec. 1942 after Tassafaronga when she had her bow blown off. I agree. |
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Posted: 6/3/2020 10:09:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/4/2020 2:53:55 PM EDT
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In 1941, the Nazis camouflaged an entire lake at the centre of Hamburg. A painted tarp was made to look like a bunch of city blocks from above, in the hope of misdirecting RAF bombers. But the Brits weren't fooled, and Hamburg would later suffer horrific firebombing.  Attached Filehttps://bigthink.com/strange-maps/hamburg-bombing-camouflage |
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Posted: 6/4/2020 3:34:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat's pretty neat even though it was useless |
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Posted: 6/4/2020 3:47:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dog1: That's pretty neat even though it was useless Reminds me of the camo on the Boeing factory during the war. I thi k it was supposed to look like a suburban neighborhood. |
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Posted: 6/4/2020 4:08:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jblomenberg16: Reminds me of the camo on the Boeing factory during the war. I thi k it was supposed to look like a suburban neighborhood. 
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Posted: 6/4/2020 4:08:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 13starsinax: Do-217 https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/303716/Dornier-Do-217-NJG-02_jpg-1445551.JPG My kinda unit
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Posted: 6/4/2020 5:38:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By birdbarian: Not when non-skid was applied. True enough but it's hell on shoe soles. |
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Posted: 6/4/2020 5:39:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By birdbarian: Not when non-skid was applied. True enough but it's hell on shoe soles. |
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Posted: 6/4/2020 5:51:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NoMoAMMO: My kinda unit Sure is. Got to love the night fighters.  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/4/2020 8:49:00 PM EDT
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Vehicle registration and proof of insurance please?
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FL, USA
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Posted: 6/4/2020 9:17:29 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Wulfmann]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Japanese ships in drydock. Kongo class CB (or what they reclassed as battleship on top). Heavy cruiser on bottom appears to be a Mogami class. Great picture of a Kongo prewar before conversion Actually the cruiser is not a Mogami. The Mogami had 3 forward facing turrets with both A&B on the main deck and C super firing. That is a Nachi class probably Haguro with C turret facing aft in front of the main superstructure Hard to differentiate from the Takao class, very similar but it does seem the distance between the stacks makes it a Nachi class  |
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Posted: 6/4/2020 10:16:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wulfmann: Great picture of a Kongo prewar before conversion Actually the cruiser is not a Mogami. The Mogami had 3 forward facing turrets with both A&B on the main deck and C super firing. That is a Nachi class probably Haguro with C turret facing aft in front of the main superstructure Hard to differentiate from the Takao class, very similar but it does seem the distance between the stacks makes it a Nachi class https://i.imgur.com/aMKtkDE.jpg That is impressive. |
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Posted: 6/4/2020 10:25:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/4/2020 10:38:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryA guy local to me has an 88 Flak gun he bought from Ukraine about 10-12 years ago. He fired it every now and again at the Secret City Festival in Oak Ridge, Tn. That thing is loud as hell. |
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Posted: 6/4/2020 10:43:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Mal_means_bad]
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Military Aviation History is reading from the war diary of an FW 190 ground attack squadron in France in June 1944, they got bounced by Allied fighters while relocating to bases nearer the beachhead on June 6 and he noted that each pilot KIA came with a matching mechanic KIA. That's because in an emergency relocation like that the crew chief was sometimes stuffed into a storage space in the fuselage to accompany the aircraft and keep it running at the new airfield, faster than if he had to wait for ground transport. Obviously they wouldn't do that if they knew they'd be in a dog fight, this time it bit them in the ass and they lost double the personnel.
Photographer uses the storage space to shoot from: Comfortable? No.  Luftwaffe on D-Day - In Their Own Words US pod slung under a Lightning. Better? Or worse?  |
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Posted: 6/6/2020 4:33:09 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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If you read War of the Cottontails by Williams Cubbins, there is a story of an American officer flown out of Rumania in the fuselage of a Me-109 marked with a crude American flag. The Rumanian pilot approached the American airfield with his landing gear down, universal symbol for surrender. He landed and was quickly swamped with GI's. Anyway, the American officer explained that he had just left a POW camp and that there were many other Americans awaiting rescue.
http://www.450thbg.com/real/aircraft/swashbuckler3.jpg |
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Posted: 6/6/2020 4:37:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/6/2020 5:27:22 PM EDT
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I will
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Posted: 6/6/2020 5:29:14 PM EDT
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 "Hymn to the Fallen" by John Williams |
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Posted: 6/6/2020 8:28:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/6/2020 11:38:23 PM EDT
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Pointe Du Hoc on D Day+2
Then-  Attached FileNow-check out the blocks and bricks, same spot  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/6/2020 11:47:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Deere_John_16]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Colt_sporter: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/24640/73949545-8EAA-4671-93AA-C26801F10B59_jpe-1449676.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/24640/C442C01D-C8F9-4CDB-8B69-52F0D79FEBF9_jpe-1449678.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/24640/D29BF7B0-B665-4FDE-AE5C-404920B07571_jpe-1449680.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/24640/6365B2FA-A8C2-4881-B3B9-D123EA9CB5F5_jpe-1449684.JPG I do 76 years later. Sgt. Waldkoetter is the only person from our county to have died and been buried in Normandy. We visited his grave last August and had the honor of placing the American and French flags at his grave.  Attached FileMore info |
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Posted: 6/7/2020 7:06:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jblomenberg16: I do 76 years later. Sgt. Waldkoetter is the only person from our county to have died and been buried in Normandy. We visited his grave last August and had the honor of placing the American and French flags at his grave. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/181534/Resized_20190801_104758_253361913983393_-1450504.JPG More info 
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Posted: 6/7/2020 7:09:08 PM EDT
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 B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-28861) nicknamed "Burma Bound" of the 451st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, with a smoking engine as a result of a direct flak hit during a mission over Munich, 1944. The number four engine of BURMA BOUND was hit by flak as the plane returned from blasting a target at Munich, Germany. It limped homeward on three engines. December 1944. US Air Force Photo. December 1944 |
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Posted: 6/7/2020 7:15:12 PM EDT
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 Over Toulon France - June 8, 1944 |
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Posted: 6/7/2020 7:25:46 PM EDT
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Messerschmitt Me 210A1 (2H+DA) of Versuchsstaffel 210, Holland, 1942.  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 6/7/2020 7:40:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By birdbarian: Wonder how far away they are from needing this a second time. https://i.pinimg.com/474x/24/30/2a/24302a9407b33e79dd417f3fab065ec8--ww-pictures-ww-photos.jpg https://honortheveteransblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/0292.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/474x/54/00/2c/54002c31efa05d21274b379bb3fdc903.jpg Unfortunately, most of those guns and items that we sent the British where scrapped after the war instead of being returned. (Picture not related)  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/7/2020 8:05:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 22caliberKIDD: Pointe Du Hoc on D Day+2 Then- https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/321106/759143F3-3A89-4BDD-9905-8C17F18D95BF_jpe-1450481.JPG Now-check out the blocks and bricks, same spot https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/321106/B8895E86-ECC6-4397-B64D-B726FD011841_jpe-1450484.JPG  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/8/2020 10:07:04 AM EDT
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Nice work mp41, Thanks.
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Posted: 6/8/2020 10:13:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wtfboombrb: Cobweb Camouflage on USS MINNEAPOLIS CA-36 in Tulagi Harbor 1944 https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/369185/15911847435792109068620-1444890.jpg That was after her bow was blown off.   _with_a_temporary_bow_at_Tulagi%2C_in_December_1942.jpg)
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Posted: 6/8/2020 11:39:28 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/8/2020 2:57:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mp41: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/227797/A_couple_of_the_boats_the_Rangers_used_w-1451919.JPG Love these types of pics Tanks doing tank stuff   Attached File |
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Posted: 6/8/2020 4:15:39 PM EDT
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Hydraulics out, no brakes, improvise, overcome, adapt. You use your chutes to slow the plane when you land.
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Posted: 6/8/2020 9:16:53 PM EDT
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'Any landing that you can walk away from.......'
Ingenious! |
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Posted: 6/8/2020 9:28:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 22caliberKIDD: Love these types of pics Tanks doing tank stuff https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/321106/A1678736-5A6C-44B0-A0D9-6702B4791148_jpe-1452924.JPG I like them too. When they can be found that is..  Attached File |
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