Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[Shinpachi]

On April 1, 1945, 3 G4Ms equipped with 3 Ohkas attacked the USS West Virginia and 2 others near Okinawa.
The girl in picture would have been a fiancée of one of the crews as it looks like a matchmaking photo.

 

[johnbr]

 

[johnbr]

The big boy

 

[johnbr]

 

[johnbr]

musashi

tirpitz

 

[johnbr]

Halifax – The Spring Board by John Horton, in which the flurry of dockyard activity during the Second World War is clearly evident.
The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939 to 1945 - Canada.ca

 

[johnbr]

Liberty ship diagram

 

[N4521U]

The big boyView attachment 522788

BOOM, repair...... BOOM, repair.......BOOM........... repair...

 

[Gnomey]

Nice stuff guys!

 

[johnbr]

net

 

[johnbr]

"Mainichi Shimbun", special issue dedicated to the Japanese Navy (1930)

 

[johnbr]

Piloted by Lt Alfred Magee, landing on the USS Cowpens (CVL-25) 12th January 1944.
Piloted by Lt Alfred Magee Fleeing the burning F6F Hellcat on USS Cowpens (CVL-25) 12th January 1944.

 

[Shinpachi]

Powerful pics

 

[johnbr]

Nagato 1942

main guns off the Battleship Nagato in the Japanese Navy base Kure 1942.

 

[johnbr]

Japanese submarine I-30

The Kriegsmarine sailors escorting the Japanese submarine I-30 near the French port of Lorient 2nd August 1943.

 

[johnbr]

This 1944 Richard Vogt's design was powered by two BMW 003 jet engines and was armed with two MK 193 30 mm cannon on each side of the fuselage and one MG 151/20 20 mm cannon in the nose. The real star of this design was the variable wing, which was achieved by rotating the whole wing spar, up to 35 degrees. This was believed to have the advantages of higher maximum speed when in the 35 degree sweep position and better handling when in the straight position. Because the fuselage was filled with wing-rotation machinery, the landing gear extended down from the wing mainspar, and were very long.

Span: 11.98 m (39′ 4″)
Straight: 10.06 m (33′ 0.375″) at 35 degree sweep
Length: 10.45 m (34′ 3.75″)

 

[special ed]

Dr Richard Vogt was brought to the U.S. and influenced the NASA AD-1 experimental test aircraft.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff guys!

 

[johnbr]

 

[Elvis]

HMS Turbinia at Spithead, 1897...

...after that day, everything changed for all the world's navies.