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• Nov 11, 2022

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Airframes said:

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

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

 

• Nov 11, 2022

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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.

 

• Nov 11, 2022

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Good shots!

 

• Nov 12, 2022

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

 

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• Nov 12, 2022

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The Kingfisher is a neat little plane.

 

• Nov 13, 2022

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

 

• Nov 13, 2022

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

 

• Nov 13, 2022

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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?

 

• Nov 13, 2022

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life raft pods ????

 

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

 

• Nov 13, 2022

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

 

• Nov 14, 2022

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

 

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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.

 

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• Nov 14, 2022

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• Nov 14, 2022

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Hoo boy, that's not pretty.

 

• Nov 15, 2022

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

 

• Nov 15, 2022

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

 

• Nov 16, 2022

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

 

• Nov 16, 2022

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• Nov 16, 2022

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syscom3 said:

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.