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[Alex .]

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I'll skip, thanks! Blimey! Good point Tom, I'm sure swinging from the sails would have been a rather nerve wracking experience!

 

[Airframes]

If God had meant for man to go to sea, he would have made smooth water, and the biggest, most stable, **** off ship possible!
And to think, aircraft had to operate in conditions approaching those shown - and find their floating airfield later, which wouldn't be where they'd left it!!

 

[syscom3]

Good pictures by everyone!

Here is mine for today. A picture from the 1940 Louisiana maneuvers. To say the US was woefully under-equipped that summer is an understatement.

 

[Airframes]

And when the chips were down, it wooden work ...... I'll get me coat!

 

[Matt308]

And in case they forgot their training kit, a large sign was hung on the mock weapon system. Lordy...

 

[Njaco]

Nobody wanted it mistaken for a 155 howitzer.....

 

[N4521U]

And........................... someone took the "bucket", which was frustrating for the constipated trainee gunner!



***sorry

 

[meatloaf109]

If God had meant for man to go to sea, he would have made smooth water, and the biggest, most stable, **** off ship possible!
And to think, aircraft had to operate in conditions approaching those shown - and find their floating airfield later, which wouldn't be where they'd left it!!

And here I thought that all the Brits were Heart of Oak types.

 

[N4521U]

Ruled the seas and all that.

 

[meatloaf109]

Aye, always be an England, Jolly Jack Tar....

 

[Airframes]

B*ll*cks to that! I live as far from the sea as you can probably get in Britain!

 

[syscom3]

Just a reminder .... EVERYONE is encouraged to post a single picture once a day. It can be of anything related to WW2. Many times, the home front pictures are quite interesting.

 

[Wildcat]

22 July 1944. Japanese airmen scatter after being caught on the ground by a 31 sqn RAAF Beaufighter at Lingat. The "lilly" was destroyed in subsequent strafing runs.

 

[Lucky13]

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What freakin' IDJIOT was taking the picture

Is that guy, to the right, actually smiling!?

 

[Airframes]

No, he's got wind !

 

[syscom3]

the USS Mount Hood exploding in Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island on 10 November 1944 killing all men aboard, obliterating the ship itself, and sinking or severely damaging 22 smaller craft nearby.

The harbor is in the Admiralties (North of Rabaul) and was an excellent anchorage. It also was used as one of the staging areas for many amphib assaults in the PTO.

 

[Njaco]

Mittelbau-Dora was a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Its prisoners were used by the SS mainly in the tunnel excavation and nearby underground stations of the Mittelwerk Ltd., in Kohnstein, situated near Nordhausen, where the V-2 rocket and the flying bomb V-1 rocket were produced. On 11 April 1945 Mittelbau-Dora was liberated by the Third Armored Division and various 104th Division attachments. Over 1,200 patients were evacuated, with 15 dying en route to the hospital area and 300 subsequently dying of malnutrition.

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[Njaco]

A spreading patch of burning oil and petrol on the surface of the water, following the shooting down of a Junkers Ju 88 by Bristol Beaufighters of No. 248 Squadron RAF over the Bay of Biscay.

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[syscom3]

Spitfires in Burma.

 

[Wildcat]

RAAF Beaufighters destroy another Japanese supply barge.