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That give sense to the Composte Squadron denomination.
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U.S. Marine Corps Grumman F6F-5N Hellcats of Marine Night Fighting Squadron 541 (VMF(N)-541) take off from Peleliu,
in 1944.
Nice shots!
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Okay, several OSHA and FRA violations here.
What was that saying about the good genes?
Received this photo from my Pinterest feed. That's a Ford 1940 (IMHO) and those are German soldiers. The "mods" done to the car are great! Kind of buggy - love the tires!
The rear part incl. the driver's seat is obviously some DIY wooden structure, right:
Here's the same car (IMHO) as a Deluxe Coupe:
The rear part incl. the driver's seat is obviously some DIY wooden structure, right:
Here's the same car (IMHO) as a Deluxe Coupe:
IMHO that's a captured Dutch Army MGT with the chassis based on the 1940/41 conversion of the Ford 19C Commercial by Marmon-Herrington with a dismounted MG and the stabilizing jacks. These vehicles were intended for the Netherlands East Indies.
the pic source: the net.
Woytek, thanks for the addition. I believe the photo I posted shows the same conversion as your photo on the left. The staff car (let's call it so)on the right is a slightly different model IMHO. Check the cut-outs for the wheels (I've done this for some military Ford Woody types so I know these point from before): the platform on the left (obviously with a civil car origin) has smaller cut-outs, even the one with the bigger tires I posted. The military variant (on the right) has bigger cut-outs. The LRDG-variant called 15-cwt has even bigger"
I've seen pick-ups on the same base as well like this one (smaller cut-outs):
Maybe they are from different years but basically look the same to me.
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Well, since we're waffling about the '40 Ford....
I agree. Here the next variant of the car.
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View: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10231323408456497&set=pcb.1860062894629478
Oh, those photos are great! A real jeep! Is this Egypt? Asking because LRDG acquired some of their early trucks (as shown in my previous post) from Egyptian military car parks.
This particular design is amazing! The rear of the car is very interesting. This could be a local modification though, not a Ford-design per se.
And again: smaller (civil) tires, smaller cut-outs and one more thing: the Dutch pick-ups and the above jeep have their "blinkers" above the headlight. On the other German staff car you posted and on the luxury civil car I posted, they are integrated in the headlight.
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Corsair 302 and 315 silhouetted against a night sky full of anti aircraft tracers at Yonton Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, on the
28th of April 1945....
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Collection of captured German planes including three early HE-111 models and a FW-200 at Gorky Park, Moscow in 1943 REDD
According to the pic source it is a vehicle of the Portuguese Army in Lisbon , 1942 or 1943 .... and one more shot ...
the pic source: the link above.
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RNAS Mill Meece also known as HMS Fledgling in Staffordshire, 1943....a Corsair, Martlet, Spitfire, Hurricanes and Barracudas.
Interesting to see the early He111s
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A fantastic shot of a gaggle of HMS Ameer-bound 804 Squadron Hellcats making a practice attack/close quarter fly-by
off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa on 6 December 1944 before landing on her deck for the first time.
Photo: Imperial War Museum
