Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[Wurger]

 

[tyrodtom]

Aircraft Pictorial for Japanese Children in 1938.

Type 93 Heavy Bomber
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Kaga in original state
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Secret aircraft
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Maybe that's where Myasaki got his inspiration for some of his flights of fancy.

 

[Shinpachi]

Maybe that's where Myasaki got his inspiration for some of his flights of fancy.

He would have looked like this when he was a kid

Source: Aviation pictorial (1940)

 

[special ed]

Some of us still do!

 

[Viking1066]

The crowded cockpit of a G4M1 JGAG.

 

[Viking1066]

Vought F4U 7 Corsair French Navy Flottille 15F9 and 15F16 French carrier La Fayette 1957 ASBIZ

 

[Frog]

Vought F4U 7 Corsair French Navy Flottille 15F9 and 15F16 French carrier La Fayette 1957 ASBIZ
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15F is the unit designation.
15F9 and 15F16 are planes numbers.
Flotille 15F operated F4U7s from may 1953 to may 1962.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[Viking1066]

Yokosuka B4Y2s over IJN Ryujo 1938 JBLD.

 

[Viking1066]

USMC Sikorsky MH-53E Super Sea Stallion of HMH-465 "War Horses' preparing to lift an Iraqi AF F-7B '6578' captured as spoils during Operation Desert Storm USMC

 

[Glider]

Aichi D1A2 JAPB
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With the exception of the canopy, that is so like a Swordfish, I had to look twice

 

[Shinpachi]

On February 19, 1942, IJN task force and land-based bombers attacked Port Darwin to secure the Kupang airfield of Timor Island on the following day.

Kupang, Timor

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)

Timor Island

Source: https://iilss.net/about-timor-sea-facts-and-maps/