Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (54 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

Nakajima B5N2 returning to IJN Akagi after raid AKAWI

 

[MIflyer]

VMF-212 in 1952 off Korea

 

[Viking1066]

175th A-10 Warthogs 'Lil'Denise' Norris the Playhog' Cleared Hot, My Barb' Miss Piggy' 'mama Cas' and 'Darling Denise' A and B Flights August 1989 FUSI

 

[MIflyer]

USS Enterprise, 1941. Note the gun camera mounted on the side.

 

[Viking1066]

2500th Skyhawk delivered, an A-4M USMC 1971 DOU

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima B5N1-K trainer ;KA-310' of the Kasumiguara Hikotai 1941 WIMI

 

[Shinpachi]

IJA 16th division heads for Manila on December 24, 1941.

48th division crosses northern river for Manila on December 30.
Joint U.S.-Filipino army retreats to Bataan.

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)

 

[Viking1066]

Kawasaki Ki-32 45th Sentai China JAWI

 

[Viking1066]

Line of TA-4Hs and Ta-4Js of the IAF Flight Training School Advanced Squadron with the no.102 Squadron IDF

 

[Viking1066]

VMB-2 Douglas SBD-1 Dauntless delivery flight late 1940 DOUGLAS

 

[MIflyer]

Not the most shiny airplane around, but it sure looks vicious. F4U-5N of VMF-513 in Korea.

 

[Viking1066]

Swedish Lancaster 80001 with a Dovern jet engine 1951. Crashed and destroyed 1956. NEAM

 

[Viking1066]

pilots on IJN Shokaku PH raid no.1 December 1941 AIVA

 

[Viking1066]

RSAF (Republic of Singapore) A-4s at Cope Tiger 2002, Korat Thailand USAF

 

[MIflyer]

Another -5N in Korea.

 

[SaparotRob]

RSAF (Republic of Singapore) A-4s at Cope Tiger 2002, Korat Thailand USAF
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Was this held in conjunction with the Cobra Gold exercises?

 

[Viking1066]

Was this held in conjunction with the Cobra Gold exercises?

I would think it would be.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Swedish Lancaster 80001 with a Dovern jet engine 1951. Crashed and destroyed 1956. NEAM
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Is that a Junker Ju 86 on the left? Must be Swedish.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Never heard about this plane before:


View: https://youtube.com/shorts/zZqouV9R3z0?si=YmZ4HsGs1-egvoBc

 

[cammerjeff]

I always thought that it was an interesting type, from what I understand it was a land plane conversion of a Dornier Whal flying boat converted into a bomber.