Marine Ordnancemen load 2000 lb bomb into the bomb bay of a Grumman TBF-1 Avenger, 1944....
TBF Avenger of VT-31 scrambles from the sinking aircraft after the pilot ditched it during flight operations on board the light carrier USS Cabot (CVL-28) on the 6th of September 1943....
TBF-1C Avenger #92 of VT-26 after it ditched following a catapult mishap on board the USS Bataan CVL-29 on the 13th of March 1944....
Man, this thread is chock full of excellent ideas..
Here are hours and hours of film from a German archive that is searchable and offers endless ideas and (moving) images of daily and operational life on the German side of WW2... here are three random selections;
Would look nice as a....is it black box diorama it's called, when the whole thing is boxed in?
ITALY. Near Troina, Sicily. August, 1943. American soldiers on a reconnaissance mission to capture Troina, a strategically located hilltown on the road to Messina (Sicily's main port to the mainland). The town was being fiercely defended by the Germans, in an attempt to evacuate all German troops.