Picture of the day.

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[MIflyer]

SBD on the USS Hornet at Midway

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

SBD on the USS Hornet at Midway

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Notice mix of M1 and M 1917A1 helmets.

 

[MIflyer]

Notice mix of M1 and M 1917A1 helmets.

Yes, just like in the movie Wake Island. I have a WW1 British helmet that was purchased by Belgium and refurbed and remarked for WW2.

 

[MIflyer]

 

[MIflyer]

 

[Wurger]

 

[SaparotRob]

 

[SaparotRob]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[syscom3]

A Bristol Beaufighter of the 416th Night Fighter Squadron, Army Air Force.

 

[syscom3]

Europe's biggest passenger airliner landed at Croydon Airport opening the three hour daily service with Berlin. It is a four engined Junkers 90, carrying 40 passengers at 220 miles an hour. A view of the New German Junkers 90 airliner, showing its size compared to other airliners at Croydon, London, on August 1, 1939.

 

[syscom3]

Douglas B-18 Bolo Bombers of the Fifth Bombing Squadron of the United States Army flies over Manhattan, New York, on August 1, 1939, on its way to the air display at Dayton, Ohio.

 

[cammerjeff]

Europe's biggest passenger airliner landed at Croydon Airport opening the three hour daily service with Berlin. It is a four engined Junkers 90, carrying 40 passengers at 220 miles an hour. A view of the New German Junkers 90 airliner, showing its size compared to other airliners at Croydon, London, on August 1, 1939.

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Besides the DH.91's & the AW, I think that is a rare Bloch MB220 just to the right of the Junkers, Great Picture.

 

[Bretoal2]

Besides the DH.91's & the AW, I think that is a rare Bloch MB220 just to the right of the Junkers, Great Picture.

Absolutely exact. Bloch 220 n° 17 (last one of the first and unique batch) F-ARIQ "Roussillon". Later to Lufthansa D-AXWG then D-AUAL.

Opposite side, two DH 91 Albatross, G-AFD? and G-AFD? (!) and two Armstrong Whitworth AW 27 Ensign.

 

[cammerjeff]

Absolutely exact. Bloch 220 n° 17 (last one of the first and unique batch) F-ARIQ "Roussillon". Later to Lufthansa D-AXWG then D-AUAL.

Opposite side, two DH 91 Albatross, G-AFD? and G-AFD? (!) and two Armstrong Whitworth AW 27 Ensign.

You are right there is a 2nd AW 27 in that picture! Any idea what the High Wing Monoplane or Biplane is just behind the AW's? I was thinking a Handly Page HP 42? but the wingtip does not look like it or does it look like a Fokker to my eyes.

 

[MiTasol]

and just one month before Hitler invaded Poland.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[syscom3]

B-17F frozen at Great Falls Montana 1943