Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (51 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2) off Diamondhead, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii February 1932 HISN

 

[SaparotRob]

USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2) off Diamondhead, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii February 1932 HISN
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Those two are beautiful.
Mea culpa I keep forgetting which one had the stripe.

 

[Viking1066]

Those two are beautiful.
Mea culpa I keep forgetting which one had the stripe.

Me too! The Saratoga was marked with a distinctive black vertical stripe on her funnel, while the Lexington had a smaller, horizontal stripe at the top of her funnel.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Those two are beautiful.
Mea culpa I keep forgetting which one had the stripe.Saratoga had a

Junkers Ju 87D1 Stuka 4 Staffel II.StG1 (J9+ M) over Kharkov area Soviet Russia Jan 1942 ASBIZ

 

[hw97karbine]

Douglas C-47 missing its face after a Japanese raid on Kweilin Airfield in China in the Summer of 1944

 

[Viking1066]

TBD-1 BuNo 0268 first production Devastator 1937 TBDD

 

[Wurger]

 

[Glider]

Douglas C-47 missing its face after a Japanese raid on Kweilin Airfield in China in the Summer of 1944

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How comes the rest of the aircraft was basically undamaged?

 

[hw97karbine]

How comes the rest of the aircraft was basically undamaged?

I could not find any specific details, it appears the nose might have caught fire and fallen off. Here is another image of the same aircraft, presumably the pictures were taken after the plane was moved from its original location for salvage.

 

[Glider]

I could not find any specific details, it appears the nose might have caught fire and fallen off. Here is another image of the same aircraft, presumably the pictures were taken after the plane was moved from its original location for salvage.

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Thanks, I hadn't thought of that.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

USS SARATOGA (CV-3) with two O2U Corsair planes overhead, on 3 May 1929 HISN

 

[hw97karbine]

P-47 Thunderbolts and P-40 Warhawks collected for scrap in late 1945

 

[Viking1066]

A TBD from Torpedo Eight, T-5, taxiing up the flight deck of CV-8 circa 15 May 1942 WAYB

 

[Wurger]

Gentelmen,

I would like to remind you all that attached images have to be sourced.

BTW .. nice pics.

 

[Viking1066]

Gentelmen,

I would like to remind you all that attached images have to be sourced.

BTW .. nice pics.

Yes sir. Especially 13s that have none right.

 

[Viking1066]

Aircraft of the Saratoga Air Group in a hangar of NAS Seattle, Washington (USA), 18 May 1939 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Rare color photograph of olive-drab painted B-29 superfortress They are two YB-29-BWs, and closest to the camera is 41-36960, the seventh YB-29 built WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

PT-13 Stearmans at Randolph Field used by the USAAC WIKI