Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[Elvis]

The Hindenburg over NYC in 1937. Looks like a Beech Staggerwing flying escort.

 

[special ed]

The Beech was from a news paper but I can't remember more. Read too long ago

 

[Wurger]

 

[Elvis]

Hey Wurger,

Shouldn't the Buffalo have Finnish markings and the Hurricane have British markings?
...that always struck me as odd.

 

[Wurger]

Nope. Both of the GB main topics say " Foreign Service" what means planes of the service in different AF than the one of the country the planes were designed. The Buffalo is of the Dutch service while the Hurricane was used by the Finnish AF. So all is OK.

 

[johnbr]

Fokker D21

 

[Elvis]

 

[nuuumannn]

That's Phil Makanna's shot of the CAF Zero that went to New Zealand for Warbirds over Wanaka in 2010.

That Fokker D.XXI shot is interesting, is that airframe marked 396 a Northrop? and a Fok. G-1 can be seen in the background next to the Ju 52/3m.

 

[nuuumannn]

Yup, answered my own question, Northrop A-17. I also found out that Fokker was forced to make repairs and overhaul Luftwaffe Ju 52/3ms that had been damaged during the invasion.

 

[johnbr]

German soldiers on the street of an occupied Soviet village during a snowstorm

 

[johnbr]

A German soldier, a Japanese pilot and a Japanese officer inspect a damaged Soviet light tank BT-7 model 1937.

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

WW2 ... Atlantic convoy

 

[johnbr]

1943 ... victory through progress!

 

[johnbr]

WW2 ... two million tons! - UK

 

[johnbr]

1938

 

[Shinpachi]

Interesting.

 

[johnbr]

 

[Shinpachi]

IJA disappeared but IJN survived as JMSDF.

Lifting IJN Destroyer "Nashi" in 1954.

JMSDF DE-261 "Wakaba" (1956-1971). Former IJN "Nashi".

 

[Wurger]