Picture of the day. (14 Viewers)

[GrauGeist]

Carrying on the night firing theme. M2 tank which had a fearsomely spectacular battery of fairly useless machine guns.

Unless you happened to be the poor bastards on the receiving end that were caught without benefit of cover!

 

[fastmongrel]

Unless you happened to be the poor bastards on the receiving end that were caught without benefit of cover!

True but going up against a Panzer III would you rather have a load of .30 Brownings or a 75mm gun.

 

[GrauGeist]

Many tanks in the days of the M2 were designed as infantry support. So it gave an advancing squad additional firepower from a mobile fire-pit...

The M2 light tank actually proved very useful in the Pacific in places like Guadalcanal

 

[Capt. Vick]

I'm surprised how rock-steady those airplanes in the pictures are with their full batteries firing away...

 

[GrauGeist]

Keeping the night theme going, here's a Flak Battery opening up...

 

[fubar57]

Outstanding pic. I have a few more night shots to post but they'll have to wat until I get home Wednesday A.M..

Geo

 

[vikingBerserker]

Awesome!

 

[Wildcat]

Staying on theme.. 3.7inch AA guns in action.

 

[fastmongrel]

Only know this is North Africa dont know who is flying and who is firing

 

[Wurger]

A crashed , Soviet Yak in September 1944.

 

[Wayne Little]

Good shots!

 

[fubar57]

There was no caption but Jaysus........

Geo

 

[vikingBerserker]

DAM!

 

[ScreamingLighting]

Keeping the flak at night going, because why not, U.S. Army flak tracers light up the night over Algiers.

 

[GrauGeist]

There was no caption but Jaysus........

That is an incredible photo and the story behind that is Marine AA fire during a Japanese attack; Yontan, Okinawa in Arpril 1945. The Corsairs in the foreground are from "Hell's Belles" VMF-311.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Dave. Very big cojones just to even start thinking about going through that. I think there is 5sq.ft. of opening in the top center.

Geo

 

[fubar57]

Training exercise in Wales.

Geo

 

[Torch]

Thats pretty damn close, especially the right gunner.

 

[fubar57]

Okinawa, 1945.

Geo

 

[GrauGeist]

Anti aircraft fire over Berlin