Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (3 Viewers)

[Shinpachi]

Awesome pics, Andy

 

[Wildcat]

Sappers of the 2/13th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, exhausted after breaching wire defences at Lingkas in preparation for the incoming landing craft. Tarakan 1945.

 

[Shinpachi]

302-ku pilots who were learning appropriate viewing angle to attack B-29s.
The B-29 was so large that Japanese pilots often misunderstood the appropriate shooting range. Target looked close enough to shoot but was still out of range. Atsugi airfield circa 1945.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very cool!

 

[Shinpachi]

Nakajima C6N model 11 patrol plane taking off for the Mariana Islands from Katori Airbase, Chiba Prefecture in January 1945.

 

[Wildcat]

Cool!

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Great photos gents. This was brought up in another thread and is new to me. The Owen Gun, officially Owen Machine Carbine, an Australian design.

 

[johnbr]

 

[Wurger]

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[Old Wizard]

 

[Shinpachi]

 

[Shinpachi]

A town of legend in 1936.

NHK colorized footage

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

IJN officers enjoy off-duty.

Playing poker.

Listening to classical music.

Photos by Capt. Satoshi Enomoto circa 1942.

 

[fubar57]

Damaged Ki.61 of Corporal Matsumi Nakano parked behind a B-29 cut-out in Tokyo Hibiya Park, 1944