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[Viking1066]

A Vultee Aircraft employee touches up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber at the plant in Nashville the net

 

[special ed]

Brewster Buffalo MkI NEIAF 2 VLG-V B396 Deibel Java 1942 the net
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Still wears the U.S. civil registration on the rudder.

 

[Capt. Vick]

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The name sounds familiar....Amityville Station 1953 (Dick Wetterau - Dick Viken).

LIRR - Night Photography

The old Wantagh train station, when the tracks were at ground level, moved and preserved as a museum.

 

[Capt. Vick]

US Army Nurses in France 1944 the net
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I wonder if they got PTSD also, and if so how did they deal with it. Might be a book there.

 

[fannum]

DH-9 at Eil Dur Elan, which was a British advanced base during the final expedition of the Somaliland Campaign 1920 the net
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Obviously, an aid providing ambulance conversion. So much for the revisionist portrayals of Somalia having a history of stability and peacefulness.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

De Havilland D.H. 84A Dragon 3 Lae 1948 the net
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The sunk ship in the background is one of those sunk by the USN in april 1942?

 

[Greg Boeser]

The sunk ship in the background is one of those sunk by the USN in april 1942?

Myoko Maru? Run aground after air attack 7 Jan 1943.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[MiTasol]

Myoko Maru? Run aground after air attack 7 Jan 1943.

Possibly. There was more than one run aground there. By the time I got to Lae in 72 that one was gone but another that would have been about 100-150 m/yd to the left and at right angles to that one was still there partially.