Picture of the day. (47 Viewers)

[T Bolt]

Pearl Harbor on Dec 10, 1941

 

[syscom3]

The P-38 "Little Butch" had ventured over to Attu in the winter of 1945. During it's visit it skidded off the runway and landed in a ditch.

 

[Njaco]

A knocked-out German PzKpfw III tank, with the body of one of its crew lying on the hull, 24 February 1943.

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[Lucky13]

The most beautiful aircraft carrier ever, end of...

 

[syscom3]

Comanche code-talkers of the 4th Signal Company. saw service with the 4th infantry division in the ETO.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[N4521U]

I can't imagine what the sailors aboard the Yorktown were going thru watching their mates fate. How many going down, how many on the surface, how many will we miss, how many will watch as we sail away.

 

[Wayne Little]

Some awesome pics here..

 

[syscom3]

Line of 500-lbs. bombs jiggling along on overhead conveyor hooks as a worker nonchalantly goes about his duties in room below at the A. O. Smith bomb plant in Milwaukee, WI, US

May 1944

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Wildcat]

RAAF Bostons belonging to 22 squadron make a low level bomb run on Japanese positions in New Guinea.

 

[Lucky13]

Sorry gentlemen, I couldn't post just the one pic....

 

[syscom3]

Lets keep it for one a day. Nothing like wondering what picture will be shown next.

 

[Lucky13]

Apologise again Sys!

Anyway, the one pic for the day...

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[imalko]

Here's one from Yugoslav front... Josip Broz Tito after being wounded on 9th of June 1943,during Battle of Sutjeska. Man standing behind him is Ivan Ribar. Tito was the only supreme commander of any army wounded on the battlefield in the WW2. (As any former schoolboy from former Yugoslavia would tell you.)

 

[syscom3]

USS ASTORIA CA-34 as seen from AUSTRALIA in Savo Sound on 8 August 1942. Note that her SOC floatplanes are positioned on her catapults. This is the last known photograph of ASTORIA CA-34.

 

[Njaco]

HMS HOOD going into action against the German battleship BISMARCK and battlecruiser Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941. This image taken from HMS PRINCE OF WALES was the last photo ever taken of HMS HOOD.

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[Lucky13]

You can see where one of the torpedoes hit her midships...

 

[syscom3]

I've never seen that picture before. That's one gaping hole in the hull!