Picture of the day. (36 Viewers)

[syscom3]

Squadron Leader Douglas Bader DSO (front center) with some of the Canadian pilots of his Squadron, 242 (Canadian) Squadron,
grouped around his Hurricane fighter aircraft at Duxford, September 1940.

 

[syscom3]

A pattern of chemtrails left by British and German aircraft high up in the sky, Battle of Britain, 18 September 1940.

 

[Wurger]

 

[MiTasol]

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Easy to tell the staff officers. They have nice warm overshoes for when they are standing around in the snow and ice.

 

[Greg Boeser]

A pattern of chemtrails left by British and German aircraft high up in the sky, Battle of Britain, 18 September 1940.

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This explains why there are so many poofs in England.

 

[Viking1066]

Boeing Y1B-9 test flight, 1932, with its retractable landing gear extended WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Consolidated PB2Y-3 Coronado at NAAF Galapagos October 1944 REDD

 

[cammerjeff]

It is still armed, I am not used to seeing them with the turrets still installed. Nice!

 

[Frog]

Easy to tell the staff officers. They have nice warm overshoes for when they are standing around in the snow and ice.

For guard duty, as a collective equipment, the Wehrmacht had a model of felt overshoes with wooden sole worn over the regulation boots for insulation purpose as well as an oversize variant of greatcoat with a huge colar to wear over the regular greatcoat.

My father in law (11th Colonial Engineers Regiment) remembers using them as captured equipment also for guard duty during the winter of 44. When relieved by the replacing sentinel, he had to pass him the boots and coat. By this date, because of the climate the poor Africans of the regiment had for long been regrouped at Marseille and repatriated in Africa, being replaced by metropolitans from the Resistance.

 

[GTX]

 

[Viking1066]

Ki-27b of 10 Dokuritsu Chutai China 1939-1940 with Commander Taii Kiyoshi Kimura KEGO

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi A5M2b China 1938

 

[c1951]

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74 Squadron Hunter in background,could be a tiger from Bertram Mills circus

 

[Airframes]

It was.

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman F4F 4 Wildcat VF-9 Black 9F25 about to launch CV 4 USS Ranger Nov 1942 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat VF-12 White 32 and 74 ready for catapult launch CV 15 USS Randolph ASBIZ

 

[Wurger]

the pic source: the net.

 

[cammerjeff]

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the pic source: the net.

Nice picture, I like the missing panel just in front of the vertical Stab!

 

[Wurger]

Nice picture, I like the missing panel just in front of the vertical Stab!

Actually not a panel but a glass window on both sides of the fuselage.

 

[Spitlead]

Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat VF-12 White 32 and 74 ready for catapult launch CV 15 USS Randolph ASBIZ
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Coincidentally, I took a photo of an F6F-5 Hellcat in those the same markings as aircraft #32 shown. It is an aircraft that is part of the Flying Heritage Collection Museum at Paine Field, WA, the museum formerly owned by Paul Allen.