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Milosh · Mar 4, 2014

It would also be a more direct route to the battle fields of France.

Wayne Little · Mar 4, 2014

Sweet Pics!

Airframes · Mar 4, 2014

The 9th Air Force B-26 Groups started the move to France in late August/early September. There's a very good chance that the formation seen over London were off course - London and it's environs was a no fly zone, except to intercepting fighter aircraft, and then only in an emergency. And after June 13th, the 'Diver' gun belt was moved, to cover the approaches, with a gap between the coast and the City where fighters could intercept, but weren't allowed inside the gun belts.

fastmongrel · Mar 4, 2014

The DeHavilland Queen Bee target drone and a slightly annoyed looking chap who I have never heard of

N4521U · Mar 4, 2014

Why that's Winston Bloody Churchill!!!!!

syscom3 · Mar 4, 2014

Airframes said:
The 9th Air Force B-26 Groups started the move to France in late August/early September. There's a very good chance that the formation seen over London were off course - London and it's environs was a no fly zone, except to intercepting fighter aircraft, and then only in an emergency. And after June 13th, the 'Diver' gun belt was moved, to cover the approaches, with a gap between the coast and the City where fighters could intercept, but weren't allowed inside the gun belts.

I wonder if it was taken after hostilities ended.

Njaco · Mar 4, 2014

Italian fighters on an airfield in Sicily under attack by Malta-based aircraft of the RAF.

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syscom3 · Mar 4, 2014

This synthetic oil plant will need a bit of work.

"Part of a vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial showing severe damage to the Braunkohle-Benzin syhthetic oil plant at Zeitz near Leipzig, Germany, one month after a raid by 328 Avro Lancasters of Nos. 1, 6 and 8 Groups, Bomber Command, on the night of 16/17 January 1945."

GrauGeist · Mar 4, 2014

syscom3 said:
I wonder if it was taken after hostilities ended.

I don't think so, from the looks of the invasion stripes, it must have been between June 44 and December 44 as the stripes were removed per orders of 6 December 44.

Also, if memory serves right, the stripes on the upper wing surfaces were removed between August and September of that year.

Lucky13 · Mar 4, 2014

Crimea_River · Mar 4, 2014

Canadian Spits in Canadian weather!

Aaron Brooks Wolters · Mar 4, 2014

Excellent photos guys, keep posting away.

Milosh · Mar 4, 2014

Crimea_River said:
Canadian Spits in Canadian weather!

Not enough snow to be Canadian weather.

GrauGeist, not all a/c had the stripes removed.

nuuumannn · Mar 4, 2014

Amazing images as always. Going a few posts back, the tank in Berlin is no longer there - sadly. The Soviets had little memorials to different things all round the city and most are gone, although the Soviet War Memorial at Treptower Park still exists, with its pillars of Carrara marble robbed from the ruins of Hitlers Chancellery. If the tank is the same as the one I'm thinking of, after re-unification, a graffiti artist painted it and used it in an art installation and then I think, it was scrapped. There is a T-34 and a few other things at Karlshorst, where the 'official' surrender of the German army took place on 8 May 1945. The building is now a museum and has artefacts from the Soviet occupation in it. The T-34 is mounted on a plinth with Russian writing - it might be the same one, but I'm not sure; I'll have to dig out my Berlin photos to have a look.

and a slightly annoyed looking chap who I have never heard of

I wonder who the chap is behind him? Is it Lindemann?

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Mar 4, 2014

nuuumannn said:
Amazing images as always. Going a few posts back, the tank in Berlin is no longer there - sadly. The Soviets had little memorials to different things all round the city and most are gone, although the Soviet War Memorial at Treptower Park still exists, with its pillars of Carrara marble robbed from the ruins of Hitlers Chancellery. If the tank is the same as the one I'm thinking of, after re-unification, a graffiti artist painted it and used it in an art installation and then I think, it was scrapped. There is a T-34 and a few other things at Karlshorst, where the 'official' surrender of the German army took place on 8 May 1945. The building is now a museum and has artefacts from the Soviet occupation in it. The T-34 is mounted on a plinth with Russian writing - it might be the same one, but I'm not sure; I'll have to dig out my Berlin photos to have a look.

I wonder who the chap is behind him? Is it Lindemann?

Are you talking about the T-34 at the Soviet Memorial just behind the Brandenburg Gate?

If so, it is still there. At least it was the last time I was in Berlin back in 2007.

fastmongrel · Mar 5, 2014

nuuumannn said:
I wonder who the chap is behind him? Is it Lindemann?

I dont think its Lindeman I have had a quick google and Lindman seems to have a moustache. It might be R.V.Jones

Wayne Little · Mar 5, 2014

Aaron Brooks Wolters said:
Excellent photos guys, keep posting away.

I'm with you Aaron...

Njaco · Mar 5, 2014

The last minutes of a Focke-Wulf FW 200, shot down into the sea. Here the wreckage is lying on the surface with some smoke drifting from it. The survivors were picked by a boat from a British ship.

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Airframes · Mar 5, 2014

fastmongrel said:
I dont think its Lindeman I have had a quick google and Lindman seems to have a moustache. It might be R.V.Jones

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That's Prof. R.V. Jones.

vikingBerserker · Mar 5, 2014

A stern looking gent.

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