Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (2 Viewers)

[Snautzer01]

WWII 1945 US Army, Japanese Surrender Photo Japanese officer at McArthurs HDQ | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

WWII 1940s GI's Photo #9 Japanese soldiers entering Philippines prison | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

1944 Press Photo a U.S. Marine gives a Japanese boy a piggyback ride on Saipan | eBay

 

[Shinpachi]

WWII 1945 US Army, Japanese Surrender Photo Japanese officer at McArthurs HDQ | eBay

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軍令部 参謀 大佐
A colonel of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff.

I am curious about his name because he has a good face.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[MiTasol]

That is some impressive distortion on the fuselage in both internal and external photos so there was obviously still some pretty savage recoil.

 

[Snautzer01]

NEW 6 X 4 PHOTOGRAPH WW2 JAPANESE SOLDIER 5 | eBay

i hope the do not pull the trigger. Notice the girl aiming at the instructor.

 

[johnbr]

Skunk Works Podcast: Season 2

 

[johnbr]

Skunk Works Podcast: Season 2

 

[johnbr]

Pictured above is Tom Morgenfeld, junior test pilot, in the first F-117 making a critical landing after the aircraft's nose wheel fell off after upon take off. He was advised to eject from the aircraft but was able to safely land and spare the aircraft.

 

[Snautzer01]

WWII Original Press Photo. Russo-Japanese War Siberian Border Russian Soldiers | eBay

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

Extremely Rare IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY WW2 Period Photograph Album.88 Pics c.1939 | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

1944 Press Photo Airfield runway labor army, carriers & aircraft, China | eBay

 

[Shinpachi]

The album looks a Shino-Japanese War photo collection made up by an IJN pilot of Chinkai Air Corps in Korea soon after the fall of Shanghai in November, 1937.
Awesome discovery.

 

[Snautzer01]

WORLD WAR II OFFICIAL WAR ORIGINAL PHOTO-RYUKYUS SURRENDER-OKINAWA JAPANS | eBay

 

[johnbr]

Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 in its final assembly phase

Soviet fighter Yak-3 in flight under control of test pilot Viktor Rastorguev.

Naked prototype of the Polikarpov TsKB-3 or I-15, 1933. Several hundreds were still in service in 1941 when Germany invaded the USSR
WWII planes

 

[johnbr]

Cool Martin Aircraft ad in one of my LIFE magazines same site

 

[johnbr]

Curtis Owl, showing guts. Curtiss O-52 Owl: "Messerschmitt Killer"

 

[johnbr]

The Soviet long-range bomber Yer-2 during the factory tests at the Flight Research Institute (LII). The photo shows the first prototype of DB-240. same site