Picture of the day.

[vikingBerserker]

Awesome!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I need to find a quality 1/48 scale version of this little monster. Love this aircraft.

 

[GrauGeist]

Wish it had a longer service life...and that there was one in a museum somewhere...or my backyard.

Check out: Home - Whirlwind Fighter Project

I need to find a quality 1/48 scale version of this little monster. Love this aircraft.

There's a few
Trumpeter kit #02890
Classic Airframes #463

Although it seems that there is a larger variety of the Whirlwind in 1/72 scale.

 

[syscom3]

I've never seen this one.

The IJN destroyer, Nagatsuki was holed by a six-inch shot in combat. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Tameo Furukawa, grounded the vessel near Bambari Harbor, on Kolombangara Island. It was destroyed the next day by allied air attacks.

 

[Wayne Little]

Whirlwind looks great in flight, something nice about it, but sitting on its undercarriage there is an odd look to it's stance...

 

[Wurger]

Agreed.

 

[fastmongrel]

THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. © IWM (A 27255)IWM Non Commercial Licence

Yeoman of Signals Douglas Brook, of Weybridge, with a stripped Lewis gun on the bridge of HMS WOLFHOUND in harbour at Rosyth. You can still see the remains of the cooling jacket just in front of the pan magazine. No sights though so a spray and pray weapon.

HMS Wolfhound (L56) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Capt. Vick]

Interesting

 

[syscom3]

A B17 bombs Japanese positions on Gizo Island. 1943.

 

[Capt. Vick]

There is a painting of that picture in a book I have with a couple of Rufe floatplane fighters in hot pursuit for added drama.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Check out: Home - Whirlwind Fighter Project


There's a few
Trumpeter kit #02890
Classic Airframes #463

Although it seems that there is a larger variety of the Whirlwind in 1/72 scale.

Thank you Dave, I'll look those up sir! In the meantime, here's another photo.

Consolidated B-32 "Dominator" being refueled at Yonton Airfield, Okinawa, after arriving from Luzon, Philippines, Aug. 12, 1945.

 

[Wurger]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Nice, I really love the B-32.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Check out: Home - Whirlwind Fighter Project


There's a few
Trumpeter kit #02890
Classic Airframes #463

Although it seems that there is a larger variety of the Whirlwind in 1/72 scale.

Dave, I found the Trumpeter for $11.81 on Amazon. It took some time but I'll have it soon. Thanks of the info sir. Shipping will just above 4 bucks.

 

[syscom3]

Marine Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, Commanding Officer of VMF-214 the "Black Sheep" and later Medal of Honor recipient, boards his F4U-1 Corsair at the Barakoma airstrip on Vella LaVella Island, Solomons, Dec 1943.

 

[syscom3]

5th BG B24 on Munda Strip, New Georgia.

 

[N4521U]

I met him at a book signing many years ago at an air show..............
cranky looking old b@st@rd.....

 

[GrauGeist]

I met Pappy Boyington, Fess Parker and several other notables during an airshow at MCAS El Toro in the 70's. Pappy was about as cranky as he looked (most old Marines are, anyway)

 

[syscom3]

Tanks supporting 37th Inf Div infantry, advancing on Japanese pillbox's.

 

[Wurger]

An assembling line of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk ...