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syscom3
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View of the view of the observer riding aft of a Vought OS2U Kingfisher aboard the South Dakota (BB-57) while being
transferred to the catapult off Scapa Flow, 1943.
transferred to the catapult off Scapa Flow, 1943.
cammerjeff
Staff Sergeant
Looks like the engine may be running? Interesting!
manta22
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Maybe it was so the rudder would be able to turn the plane (twist the cable) to set it on the launcher?
N4521U
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Perhaps the pilot is chickening out!
He's hiding somewhere, crew is searching.
He's hiding somewhere, crew is searching.
at6
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Hey!!!!! I see my wife sun bathing nude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Snautzer01
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Soldat Peter Burch in Europa, 1944-'46, meistens in Frankfurt am Main, 1945.
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N4521U
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Tastes great Hines, funny little bits in it tho!
Where did you find a bucket?
The bucket?
I got it from the pig farmer behind you..........
Where did you find a bucket?
The bucket?
I got it from the pig farmer behind you..........
manta22
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17 years later, on The Ides of March...
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syscom3
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An OS2U Kingfisher is launched off the starboard catapult while the port one is preparing to launch in the same direction. There is also
a third on resting on a dolly on the deck. Note the many manned 20mm Oerlikons on the aft deck, mid 1944.
a third on resting on a dolly on the deck. Note the many manned 20mm Oerlikons on the aft deck, mid 1944.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Colorado class?
Nice shots!
Snautzer01
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D-Day was ever such a long way off
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B-17G K8-G (in back) 42-102593 of the 398th Bomb Group. K8-G had one hundred missions to its credit and survived the war. Returned to the US to be scrapped at Kingman Arizona.
manta22
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Thirty-five years ago or so, my first wife and I were driving through Kingman, AZ and I remembered having seen a photo of P-40s stacked up on their noses awaiting scrappers after the war. Maybe the scene in "Best Years Of Their Lives " was filmed there, too- I don't know. I asked where the airfield had been and we were directed to the top of the hill above the city. We stopped and I asked one of the older fellows if that was where all those planes had been scrapped. He said "Yes, it had been a huge operation, pilots flew the planes in, landed, took their logbooks, and walked away." That must have been an emotional moment for many of their pilots & crew members. He said that the first buyers of a lot of surplus aircraft simply drained the high-octane Av gas from the tanks and re-sold them to another buyer who removed the platinum-tipped spark plugs from the engine(s), and then sold them... and so on down the line. Until they were smelted down for the aluminum and steel alloys.
