Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[manta22]

I learned about the Bangalore torpedo from DC comics, Our Army At War (?). The issue was about Sargent Rock encountering his identical twin at Omaha Beach in a blasted bunker. He was a Greman!

A Greman, eh? actually, I preferred "Two-Fisted Tales". The artwork was really good.

 

[SaparotRob]

The candy store didn't carry EC comics. I had to read about Super Duper Man and Melvin of the Jungle at my cousin's house.
Mom wouldn't let me near Tales of the Crypt.

EDIT: It might be Tales FROM the Crypt.

 

[Shinpachi]

I might not agree with the politics but that took guts.

According to a testimony, there were several attacking groups and their mission was to put the bomb, set timer and be back to the base. These three military engineers were not in time to be back for unknown reason. R.I.P.

 

[Shinpachi]

Paris-Tokyo flight in 1937.
In the evening of May 26, 1937, French flyers Marcel Doret and François Micheletti crash-landed on the beach of Kochi Prefecture, 600 kilo-meters to Tokyo. They were rescued by the local people but had wounded for three weeks in the red cross hospital.

Soon after the crash.

François Micheletti and Marcel Doret with French Ambassodor Charles Arséne Henry and his wife in Tokyo

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (May 1937)

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looking at that wreck they were lucky to have survived.

 

[manta22]

West German border police observation tower at the Berlin Wall in February, 1962. If anyone is on Facebook, I posted a rather long story about driving to Berlin and East Berlin in 1962. Search on my name "Neil Albaugh" and it should pop up.

 

[DBII]

West German border police observation tower at the Berlin Wall in February, 1962. If anyone is on Facebook, I posted a rather long story about driving to Berlin and East Berlin in 1962. Search on my name "Neil Albaugh" and it should pop up.View attachment 715043

Great picture. Never went to Berlin but I spent a 3 years in Fulda on the boarder.

 

[manta22]

Great picture. Never went to Berlin but I spent a 3 years in Fulda on the boarder.

It was our job to protect the Fulda Gap from Soviet & Warsaw Block armor. We were part of V Corps artillery, armed with Corporal IIB guided missiles. It carried either a nuclear or conventional warhead.

 

[Frog]

 

[Torch]

My father worked for Pan Am and we used to fly to Berlin to visit family then rent a car and drive thru checkpoints to Poland. Remember all the tank traps, mine field signs that were posted. Remember my dad making a mistake and an East German border guard yelling Halt auf, öffne dein verdammtes Fenster and a bunch of them pointing their sub machine guns at us, fun times. We did that 4 or 5 times and it was always interesting

 

[sotaro]

My father worked for Pan Am and we used to fly to Berlin to visit family then rent a car and drive thru checkpoints to Poland. Remember all the tank traps, mine field signs that were posted. Remember my dad making a mistake and an East German border guard yelling Halt auf, öffne dein verdammtes Fenster and a bunch of them pointing their sub machine guns at us, fun times. We did that 4 or 5 times and it was always interesting

Every family has it's version of family fun!

 

[Snautzer01]

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[Shinpachi]

Seya Hospital.

Source: 瀬谷医院 | solana

 

[Shinpachi]

Prince Higashi-kuni Naruhiko (1887-1990) with the aircraft for his mission on May 14, 1937.
Caption says he uses aircraft Envoy or Douglas but does not tell which one this is.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (May 1937)

 

[SaparotRob]

Staggerwing?

 

[Wurger]

I agree. The Beechcraft Model 17.

 

[Frog]

 

[Shinpachi]

Just confirmed that Japan Air Transport Co., Ltd. purchased a Beechcraft D-17E in 1936.
Tachikawa & Tokyo Aircraft Co., Ltd. assembled the model in April, 1937 for the first time.
Licensed 20 in total were assembled by April, 1939.
Thanks.

Source: 10 Years of Japan Air Transport Co., Ltd (1938)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Just confirmed that Japan Air Transport Co., Ltd. purchased a Beechcraft D-17E in 1936.
Tachikawa & Tokyo Aircraft Co., Ltd. assembled the model in April, 1937 for the first time.
Licensed 20 in total were assembled by April, 1939.
Thanks.

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Source: 10 Years of Japan Air Transport Co., Ltd (1938)

It was C17E, not D-17E.
Sorry.