Picture of the day.

[N4521U]

"For ****'s sake Bill, don't fire the gun - this thing will fall apart from the recoil !!"

Bill????????????

 

[syscom3]

Target drone aboard Wyoming (AG-17), 9 May 1945. This training aid is called the "TDD" or "Target Drone, Denny" after
the movie star Reginald Denny, who helped perfect it.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[syscom3]

Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" float plane, landing alongside the 20mm guns of the battleship USS Texas. November 1942,

 

[SaparotRob]

The Kingfisher is a neat little plane.

 

[at6]

I don't know if it is still there, but the Air Museum in Palm Springs had one on display back in the 90s.

 

[syscom3]

USS Texas. An OS2U Kingfisher scout plane is seen before launch atop the middle turret while at Iwo Jima, February 1945.

 

[cammerjeff]

Nice picture! What is hung on the underwing bomb racks? They do not look like any Fuel Tank, Bomb, or Depth Charges I am familiar with?

 

[rednev]

life raft pods ????

 

[cammerjeff]

Possibly, I found a better shot of them still don't know what they are though - Source Vought OS2U Kingfisher

 

[Capt. Vick]

Dana wrote a book on Kingfishers, maybe he'll know.

 

[syscom3]

Wounded 96th BG gunner removed from B-17 after Raid on Bremen 1944

 

[syscom3]

After setting a new long-distance record on its outward flight from Morocco to Brazil, the Giant French flying boat "Lieutenant De Vaisseau Paris" returned
to its base at Biscarosse. The flying boat flew from Lyautey, French Morocco, to Maceio, 140 miles south of Pernambuclo, in 34 hours 45 minutes. The
"Lieutenant De Vaisseau Paris" on arrival at Biscarosse, France, on its return from Dakar, Senegal, on November 14, 1937.

 

[Wurger]

 

[SaparotRob]

Hoo boy, that's not pretty.

 

[Snautzer01]

So you tell me that little thingamabob is gonna save my job?? King George VI Queen Mother at the Rolls Royce Merlin Factory

 

[Snautzer01]

No Madam this is not the wine bar Queen Mother Talking to Engineer Rolls Royce Factory

 

[syscom3]

Ground crew watches returning B-17 explode after Schweinfurt 1943. Their anguish is showing.

 

[Snautzer01]

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[N4521U]

Ground crew watches returning B-17 explode after Schweinfurt 1943. Their anguish is showing.

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How many times does Reality have to set in.