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[OldGeezer]

O OldGeezer Why the dislike? Its the german version of guy fawkes day and fawkes day seems to be ok. As a geezer you should know that. Its a bonfire or are you against that? In that case carry on.

Thanks for the alert, I hit the wrong icon without realizing it!

 

[Snautzer01]

TBF-1 landing mishap aboard USS Card, December 9, 1942.

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Winner of the best brake competition is.....

 

[special ed]

As another old geezer, I quit using the icons for the same reason.

 

[Snautzer01]

The Ostfront was though on little Freddie and only the thoughts of his mom kept him going. Next stop Stalingrad.

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Luckily little Freddie knew that re-enforcements for the panzer arm were on the way.

 

[syscom3]

B-17G 42-97636 of 401st BG after crash landing at Deenethorpe on Feb 18 1945. Aircraft was salvaged a year later.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Prop Duster]

B-17G 42-97636 of 401st BG after crash landing at Deenethorpe on Feb 18 1945. Aircraft was salvaged a year later.

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TOLD ya not to try to do donuts on the field, but did you listen?--Noooo not you--- so now you explain to the old man how it happened----geesh

P.S. of course I misread the crash location as "Dumbledore"

 

[syscom3]

B-17G's of the 457th Bomb Group over Germany. 1945

 

[Snautzer01]

Snapshot of rochie in his new job.

 

[syscom3]

YP-59A Airacomet engine placement (General Electric J31 turbojet engine). Chino Planes of Fame, California.

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

View of the torpedo mounting on a U.S. Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastator on 17 June 1937.

 

[syscom3]

Deck crew extinguish a burning F6F of VF-25 aboard USS Cowpens, November 24th 1943

 

[syscom3]

USS Gilbert Islands (CVE-107) in rough seas, sometime in 1945. TBM-3 Avengers with Marine Torpedo Bomber Squadron (VMTB) 143 and FG-1D Corsairs
of Marine Fighter Squadron (VMF) 512 are spotted on her deck.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[syscom3]

Here is something I never knew until now. In June 1937, the Soviets flew an airplane from Russia, over the polar regions
down to Southern California. Stopping along the way at a few points. Tupolev ANT-25 at San Jacinto, California [near
March AFB at Riverside], U.S.A., June 20 1937.

 

[special ed]

Much interesting info on these flights. One source said the pilot and navigator were later arrested in USSR for espionage as they knew the Nav route to the US. There is a second ANT-25 lost somewhere along the polar route to the US. It has been years since I read the articles about these flights, so memory fades may exist. Maybe "global warming" will reveal where it went down along with other notable aircraft. There is an ANT-25 repro in a Russian museum.

 

[Wurger]

I know the route as well. Does it mean I'm a spy?

 

[special ed]

The USSR is gone, but don't give Vlad any ideas.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Wasn't it a twin engine Soviet plane that went missing?