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[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

 

[v2]

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[v2]

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[Torch]

7719 almost looks like it came out of the movie "The Battle of the Bulge"

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

New Jersey, 1937

 

[michaelmaltby]

New York, early 1941

 

[Wurger]

Italian soldiers inpecting a crashed Su-2 bomber, 1941 ...

 

[Crimea_River]

 

[Wurger]

The same Su-2 seen above....

 

[michaelmaltby]

Romanian POWs bagged at Stalingrad

 

[michaelmaltby]

French Waffen SS captured, France, 1944

 

[johnbr]

Ki 61 Stock Photos & Ki 61 Stock Images - Alamy

Kawasaki Ki-61 'Tony' factory

 

[johnbr]

Maj Teruhiko Kobayashi in his Ki-61. Note the 6 B-29 kill markings. The last one, crossed by a silhouette of his Ki-61, indicates his ramming of 27 January 1945.

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[johnbr]

Improvement of the basic model led to the Ki-100-II, with a turbocharged engine for high-altitude interception of the B-29 Superfortresses, but only three examples were built, and it never saw combat.

Nakajima Ki-84

 

[johnbr]

Ki 100 II with the turbocharged Ha 112 engine. Note the added scoops on the wing roots and the extra piping, half buried, under the fuselage.

KI- 100 11 Ki-100-II (prototypes): engine Mitsubishi Ha-112-II Ru with turbocharger, 1,120 kW (1,500 hp). 3 built as such.