Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (7 Viewers)

[special ed]

I once had opportunity to buy a VIS or a Lahti but not both. Still have the Lahti & miss the opportunity for the VIS.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[MiTasol]

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Henryk Ożarek "Henio" (left) and Tadeusz Przybyszewski "Roma" (right) from "Anna" Company of "Gustaw" Battalion in
the region of Kredytowa-Królewska Street. "Henio" holds "Vis" pistol and "Roma" shoots from Błyskawica submachine gun.

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View: https://youtu.be/fBQ3XXpyBTw?si=tHbHpa-QrWU9ufu5

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While wearing their airpods with active noise cancelling for comms

 

[Frog]

The pistol looks like the love child of a 1911 and a Colt auto 38.

I would say a Radom VIS 35.

 

[Viking1066]

U.S. Navy aircraft carriers USS Saratoga (CV-3) (left) and USS Lexington (CV-2) make steam while at anchor in the waters off Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, circa 1930 PICR

 

[Viking1066]

U.S. fleet off Lahaina, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, on February 16, 1932. There are seven battleships, carriers USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3), four light cruisers, twenty-four destroyers, and many auxiliaries HISN

 

[Viking1066]

P39Q Airacobra lend lease to USSR. Lost in action 1944. Recovered from Russian lake and gifted to USA NIAA

 

[Viking1066]

1937 Spithead review Line FORO

 

[cammerjeff]

HMS Rodney was such an odd looking but effective ship

 

[Glider]

I also think about how different they looked about five years later with AA guns, directors and radars stuffed into every corner and crevice on deck.

 

[Viking1066]

The golden-colored varnish on the propeller blades was seen on several pre-war USN aircraft types INCG

 

[MiTasol]

That was probably an alodine stain on anodised blades.

 

[Viking1066]

The XTBD-1 with the original flat canopy in 1935 WIKI

 

[special ed]

He's holding a LOT of right rudder.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Zippythehog]

HMS Rodney was such an odd looking but effective ship

Mullet battleship-business up front, party in the back.

 

[Viking1066]

The U.S. Marines also flew the type, these aircraft are assigned to VMF-1 at Quantico INCG

 

[Viking1066]

U.S. Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastator (BuNo 1512, "6-T-2") of Torpedo Squadron 6 (VT-6) on a elevator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6), in May 1942 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

USS Ranger, foreground; Lexington, middle distance; and Saratoga, background, lie at anchor off Honolulu, Hawaii, 8 April 1938 during Fleet Problem XIX WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

KC-130F Hercules (VMGR-152) refueling an A-4 Skyhawk during Exercise Thalay Thai 1989 SEOR