Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[Wurger]

 

[MIflyer]

AD-4A of VA-65 NAS Alameda

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman TBF-1 Avenger from VT-8 May 1942 RUDARN

 

[at6]

BTW. I was referring to the blister on the nose of a B-17-B when I wrote I was looking for the "pimple".

Did you pop it when you found it?

 

[SaparotRob]

I would indeed, sir.

 

[at6]

Two WAVES clean-up an SNJ-4 trainer at NAS Jacksonville, Florida 1944 USN

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Nice! Would have been even nicer if they had closed the cockpit canopy.

It would have also helped if they had been wearing mono-kinis.

 

[N4521U]

Did not know, but is just one of Many things!!!!!
So wasn't the Bell, just the crew, was the Angel.

 

[Snautzer01]

Some piece of wood.

 

[at6]

Is that morning wood?

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima B5N1 '3-356' 12th Ku combat tests over China 1938-1939 WIMI

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss XSB2C-1 BuNo.1758 December 1940 RUAR

 

[special ed]

AD-4A of VA-65 NAS Alameda

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Great diorama for a certain person's stash of ADs along with Neptunes, Cougars and the Panther taxiing to the yellow jeep, far right, to be positioned on line.

 

[Shinpachi]

Corregidor falls on May 7, 1942,

Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 8・太平洋戦争 2)(Dec.1978)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

AIchi D3A1 'EI-208' IJN Shokaku over TF-17 May 8th battle of the Coral Sea 1942 PINI. In the photo 'EI-208' looks to be in white. I checked my sources again and they show to be in red letters. I almost replaced the red letters on the D3A1 with white ones, but decided that wouldn't match up with what the other sources show is red.

 

[Viking1066]

US Battle Fleet USS Lexington and USS Saratoga in background 1934 NAC

 

[Wurger]

AIchi D3A1 'EI-208' IJN Shokaku over TF-17 May 8th battle of the Coral Sea 1942 PINI. In the photo 'EI-208' looks to be in white. I checked my sources again and they show to be in red letters. I almost replaced the red letters on the D3A1 with white ones, but decided that wouldn't match up with what the other sources show is red.
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The pic seems to be taken with using of a filter ( possible the yellow or red one ). It caused that the red became very light while the yellow and the white looked almost the same. What makes the matter worse , the pic was taken in the full sunlight what made the red looking even more lighter. Also it can be noticed that the number is slightly darker ( similar to the red disk of the hinomaru ) than the white band and the hinomaru outline. So I vote for the red number though.

 

[Viking1066]

The pic seems to be taken with using of a filter ( possible the yellow or red one ). It caused that the red became very light while the yellow and the white looked almost the same. What makes the matter worse , the pic was taken in the full sunlight what made the red looking even more lighter. Also it can be noticed that the number is slightly darker ( similar to the red disk of the hinomaru ) than the white band and the hinomaru outline. So I vote for the red number though.

Thank you! My eyes are not what they used to be. The knowledge is also very useful for future projects.

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima B5N1 'W-326' IJN Soryu operations over China 1939 BAER

 

[Viking1066]

Douglas O-25A camouflage 1932 USACA