Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (31 Viewers)

[Warspite63]

A6M2 Zero Model 21s at Lakunai Airfield, Rabaul. Their scant camouflage consists of palm fronds draped over the wings the net
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LOL .... well, the IJN also tried to hide battleships by putting potted bamboo plants all over them. Before you ask, It didn't work ....

 

[SaparotRob]

It did for the Dutch.

 

[Viking1066]

FPO1/c Kiyoshi Ito posing by the cockpit of an A6M3 Zero Model 32 (tail code "X-151") assigned to the 3rd Kokutai, Timor Island, August–September 1942 the net

 

[Viking1066]

An early D1A1 coded Ka-204 in flight carrying a drop tank the net

 

[GTX]

Does anyone know the fate of this B-29?

Not sure if it was on the mission the photo is from but see here:

"Never Give Up!" The Odyssey of Hap Halloran - Wyn Wachhorst

Surviving seven months of torture as a POW in Japan, Ray “Hap” Halloran ended his recurrent nightmares by returning 40 years later to befriend his captors and the pilot who shot him down.

wynwachhorst.com

 

[Viking1066]

IJN Hosho after Midway the net

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi A6M3 Model 32, "X-152," of the 3rd Kokutai, at Koepang, Timor Island, circa August–September 1942. The aircraft bears the Hokoku No. 1000, whose subscript indicates that it was donated by the Hiroshima Prefectural Medical Associatio the net

 

[Viking1066]

IJN Hosho during the Shanghai Incident the net

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima J5N Tenrai photo 2 the net

 

[Viking1066]

The diagonal flight leader band is red with yellow borders which makes 25 one of the 53rd Sentai's more colorful aircraft the net

 

[Viking1066]

IJN Kaga, Hiei, and Nagato during the annual naval review at Yokohama August 1933 the net

 

[Viking1066]

A6M2 Zero Model 21s aboard the aircraft carrier Zuiho (瑞鳳), October 1942 the net

 

[Viking1066]

A row of Ki-45 "Toryu" from the 53rd Sentai, 1st Chutai the net

 

[MiTasol]

WAAF and Wirraway. From awm.gov.au

 

[Viking1066]

view of "59". The white "bandages" under the Hinomaru indicated a JAAF aircraft assigned to Home Defense duties. The diagonal band designates a flight leader, in the 53rd this band was applied in red with either a white or yellow border the net

 

[Viking1066]

This perspective shows the Home Defense bands wrapped around under the wing. While the Ki-45 is often associated with a veined or mottled camouflage, during the last months of the war aircraft were delivered with solid paint schemes the net

 

[Viking1066]

IJN Kaga and Hosho the net

 

[Viking1066]

This aircraft is the mount of Lieutenant Isamu Kashiide, an ace who was to claim seven B-29s while flying the Toryu with the 4th Sentai the net