A Few Interesting Pics

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Great pics, and obviously caused quite a stir.
Being on the beach, and with all the people around it, gives a good impression of its size, too.
 


Taken from the "I Love WWII Planes" Facebook site:

Sad story: The crew of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Waddy's Wagon", 869th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force, posing to duplicate their caricatures in the nose art at Isley Airfield in Saipan, 24th of November 1944.

On the 9th of January 1945 "Waddy's Wagon" took off from Saipan to bomb the Nakajima Aircraft Factory in Musashino, Japan. Coming off the target as stated in B-29 Hunter's of the JAAF: "Another victim of a ramming was "Miss Behaving" AC #42-24655 from the 497th Bomb Group, flown by 1st Lt Ben Crowell. Capt Walter Young in "Waddy's Wagon" tried to cover for his crippled wingmate as they headed out of the target area but eventually lost them. Young's aircraft had also sustained hits from enemy fighters, and he in turn eventually ditched his aeroplane into the sea. Both crews were lost." They ditched in the Pacific Ocean near the island of Hachijo Shima. The crew was declared dead on 10 January 1946
 
Totalize said:
Wow, great pics of the WWI U-boat. It doesn't look much different than the WW2 versions. Maybe its just the scale with all the people around it but looks bigger than the U boats of ww2.
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The U-118 a type UE II mine laying submarine of the Imperial German Navy and one of 329 submarines serving with that navy during World War I. The submarine was built by the AG Vulcan Stettin shipyard. She was launched on the 23rd of February 1918 and surrendered one year to the day later, on the 23rd of February 1919. Following surrender U-118 was to be transferred to France where it would be broken up for scrap. However, in the early hours of 15 April 1919, while it was being towed through the English Channel towards Scapa Flow, its dragging hawser broke off in a storm. The ship ran aground on the beach at Hastings in Sussex at approximately 12:45AM, directly in front of the Queens Hotel.
The U-118 was 81.5 metres long (267 ft) and had a beam of 7.42 metres (24.3 ft), her total displacement was 1,164 tonnes surfaced and 1,512 tonnes submerged. powered by twin diesel engines producing 1,200 hp in total and when submerged she was powered by twin electric motors with a combined 600 hp. The complement - 4 officers and 36 crew.

A couple more of shots I found via the net ...




























Between October and December 1919, U-118 was broken up and the pieces removed and sold for scrap.

 
Great stuff.
I can't help thinking of John Cleese, in 'Fawlty Towers', but changing Torquay to Hastings - "And what do you expect to see from a Hastings hotel window, a German submarine lying on the beach ...."
 
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