Picture of the day.

[syscom3]

F4F Wildcat after ditching in San Diego Bay due to mechanical issues on May 17, 1941. Its wing floatation bags have been
deployed, keeping the aircraft buoyant for longer. These were eventually removed the design to save weight.

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

This B-24 was a workhorse at the NASA Glenn Research Center from late 1945 to 1949. It was used to study ice build-up and methods of combating it. Over four years, virtually every part of the aircraft was studied and given some form of ice protection. It was also used to investigate ice build-up on jet engines. Here it is fitted with a Westinghouse 24C turbojet under its right wing for this very purpose.

 

[Snautzer01]

This B-24 was a workhorse at the NASA Glenn Research Center from late 1945 to 1949. It was used to study ice build-up and methods of combating it. Over four years, virtually every part of the aircraft was studied and given some form of ice protection. It was also used to investigate ice build-up on jet engines. Here it is fitted with a Westinghouse 24C turbojet under its right wing for this very purpose.

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WOW... now thats a model i would really want to have. Its gorgeous and horrific in the same time .

 

[bf109xxl]

WOW... now thats a model i would really want to have. Its gorgeous and horrific in the same time .

Dr. Freud would be probably very interested in this model, too. However, sometimes banana means just a banana...

 

[N4521U]

Gonna need a bigger

box of Kleenex

 

[syscom3]

Men of a 458th Bomb Group crew examine an 88mm shell hole in their wing
after a mission over Koblenz, Germany, 1944

 

[syscom3]

A P36.

 

[GTX]

WOW... now thats a model i would really want to have. Its gorgeous and horrific in the same time .

Sexy-Ugly

 

[syscom3]

B-26G Marauder s/n 44-60136 of the 320th Bombardment Group's 442nd
Bomb Squadron, USAAF. The type of camouflage reveal a photo taken after
late 1944 when the 320th moved to Dijon, France. According the 320th
BG's history, ETO brass ordered that all tactical aircraft at bases in France be
given a top coat of green paint to conceal them from the air as they sat on
their hard-stands. This at first was done in the field. Medium green 42, or the
RAF equivalent, was sprayed, or in some cases crudely brushed, on the upper
surfaces only.

 

[syscom3]

Sexy-Ugly

Trust me. It looks better when you are drunk.

 

[syscom3]

Color film V-J day, Honolulu.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ85j6U2Fvs

 

[Elvis]

Wow, next year's already gonna be 80 years since the war ended.
Wild.

 

[syscom3]

Naomi Parker Fraley was ar American war worker during the Second World War. She worked worker on aircraft assembly She was photographed in 1942 using a machine tool at the Naval Air Station Alameda. The picture was published in the local press, including the Pittsburgh Press. The following year, the iconic propaganda poster of "We Can Do lt!" started appearing in factories to campaign for worker morale. It is now considered that Naomi Parker Fraley is the most ikely model (known as "Rosie the Riveter") for the "We Can Do lt!" poster. The subject of the poster has previously been assumed to be of Geraldine Hogg Doyle, and only in 2011 did Naomi Parker Fraley notice the mistake and corrected it. She passed away in 2018, at the age of 96.

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Navy battleship USS California (BB-44), Norfolk, Virginia, 16 April 1939. "Under sailing orders." Members of the crew
of the California (BB-44) are drawn up on the deck of the vessel shortly after receipt of the surprise order yesterday for an
immediate return of the Fleet to the Pacific.

 

[SaparotRob]

Naomi Parker Fraley was ar American war worker during the Second World War. She worked worker on aircraft assembly She was photographed in 1942 using a machine tool at the Naval Air Station Alameda. The picture was published in the local press, including the Pittsburgh Press. The following year, the iconic propaganda poster of "We Can Do lt!" started appearing in factories to campaign for worker morale. It is now considered that Naomi Parker Fraley is the most ikely model (known as "Rosie the Riveter") for the "We Can Do lt!" poster. The subject of the poster has previously been assumed to be of Geraldine Hogg Doyle, and only in 2011 did Naomi Parker Fraley notice the mistake and corrected it. She passed away in 2018, at the age of 96.

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Great post!

 

[SaparotRob]

U.S. Navy battleship USS California (BB-44), Norfolk, Virginia, 16 April 1939. "Under sailing orders." Members of the crew
of the California (BB-44) are drawn up on the deck of the vessel shortly after receipt of the surprise order yesterday for an
immediate return of the Fleet to the Pacific.

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The caption made me think of S.S. Lurline and the other Matson liners.

I'm sure they were comfier.

 

[Elvis]

Naomi Parker Fraley was ar American war worker during the Second World War. She worked worker on aircraft assembly She was photographed in 1942 using a machine tool at the Naval Air Station Alameda. The picture was published in the local press, including the Pittsburgh Press. The following year, the iconic propaganda poster of "We Can Do lt!" started appearing in factories to campaign for worker morale. It is now considered that Naomi Parker Fraley is the most ikely model (known as "Rosie the Riveter") for the "We Can Do lt!" poster. The subject of the poster has previously been assumed to be of Geraldine Hogg Doyle, and only in 2011 did Naomi Parker Fraley notice the mistake and corrected it. She passed away in 2018, at the age of 96.

My math says she would've been between 19 and 21 years of age at the time the picture was taken.
Appears to be some kind of milling machine, so she was working as a machinist, in some capacity or another.
Pretty cool story about her being Rosie the Riviter.

 

[syscom3]

Douglas A-20 Havoc twin-engine bombers are loaded aboard a ship.

 

[MiTasol]

I love the solid rubber tyres