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• Jun 20, 2025

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The seniors of today can't remember what ............. er, what was I about to do ...................??

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The most important thing though is to remember of getting out of a bed if you have to pee. However I know a couple of retired guys who don't even do that.

 

• Jun 20, 2025

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Carrier Enterprise's Torpedo Squadron with their TBD-1 Devastator's in flight, 1939 WWAI
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I have me one of these in 1/32 scale, not sure when I'll build it though.

 

• Jun 20, 2025

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A Swedish soldier guards Boulder Buff, a B-24 of the 492nd Bomb Group that landed in Sweden on 18 June 1944

 

• Jun 20, 2025

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Nice shots!

 

• Jun 20, 2025

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Grumman F4F 4 Wildcat VF-9 aboard CV 4 USS Ranger Oct 1942 ASBIZ

 

• Jun 21, 2025

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The huge hangars of the two Lexingtons provided enough space for future aircraft. These Boeing F3B-1s of VB-2B are shown on board Saratoga in 1929 HERF

 

• Jun 22, 2025

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Photographed from USS Enterprise (CV-6) in August 1942, during the Guadalcanal Campaign. USS Saratoga (CV-3) is in the center, with a Farragut-class destroyer to the left and a New Orleans-class heavy cruiser to the right HISH

 

• Jun 22, 2025

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American Harvard aircraft are used extensively by the Royal Air Force for the advanced training of pilots. These pilots show
Harvard aircraft in use at the Royal Air Force flying training school, somewhere in England. A Harvard aircraft off for a training
flight somewhere in England, on June 22, 1940.

 

• Jun 22, 2025

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Wilhelm Keitel accepting the French surrender from Charles Huntzinger, Compiègne, France, 22 June 1940.

 

• Jun 22, 2025

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Wilhelm Keitel accepting the French surrender from Charles Huntzinger, Compiègne, France, 22 June 1940.

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Not quite in Compiègne, but not far from it, in a clearing called Rethondes, in the middle of a forest 4 kilometers east of the city.

The train car where the ceremony is taking place is the one where the German plenipotentiaries signed the armistice on November 11, 1918, in the exact same spot ! This train car was preserved nearby, under the name "Wagon de l'Armistice".

To Huntziger's left is Vice-Admiral Le Luc (Navy), to his right is General Bergeret (Air Force). It is 6:50 PM...

Huntziger was to die 17 months later in an aerial crash.

 

• Jun 22, 2025

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This photograph, taken by official British Army photographer Ernest Brooks, shows Captain Paget MC and Second
Lieutenant Barry MC of the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, reading full details of the armistice with Germany to their men
on 12 November 1918. All military operations had ceased on the preceding day at 11am on 11 November 1918.

Source: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-did-the-armistice-end-the-first-world-war

 

• Jun 22, 2025

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AAF Antisubmarine Command (AAFAC) modifications at the Consolidated Vultee Plant Fort Worth Texas ASBIZ

 

• Jun 23, 2025

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Nakajima Ki-43-Is of 50 Sentai 3 chutai leaving Tokorozawa June 1942 HIKO

 

• Jun 23, 2025

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Nakajima Ki-43-Is of 50 Sentai 3 chutai leaving Tokorozawa June 1942 HIKO
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The oil cooler, wrapped around the propeller reduction gear, is clearly visible. This arrangement was totally outdated by 1939.

 

• Jun 23, 2025

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The oil cooler, wrapped around the propeller reduction gear, is clearly visible. This arrangement was totally outdated by 1939

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Later models (Ki-43-II), like the Ki-43-IIb, often had a single, larger oil cooler located inside the carburetor duct after it was enlarged to accommodate the new cooler.

 

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• Jun 23, 2025

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These Japanese Nakajima Ki-27 1 Chutai, 64th Senrai fighter planes were photographed at an airfield in Kwangtung, China, in 1938 WARF

 

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• Jun 23, 2025

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A Hudson on coastal patrol duties, these include keeping a watch for enemy submarines and surface craft, on June 23, 1940.

 

• Jun 23, 2025

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From a Royal Air Force night bomber station, somewhere in England, a Whitley bomber takes off as the sun sets below the skyline, on June 23, 1940, for the flight over German held industrial areas.

 

• Jun 23, 2025

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Pilots pose in front of a Ki-27b from 2 Chutai 246 Sentai KEGO

 

• Jun 23, 2025

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118th TRS Airacobra provides a good view of the insignia on the "car door", as well as standard markings for the Summer of 1943 INHG