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[Crimea_River]

Both B-17s and the other 5 P-38s remain

They located and inspected one of the B-17s and it was so crushed and distorted, they didn't salvage it.

Even Glacier Girl was borderline unsalvageable when they recovered her.

A few more years of global warming and we should see em all.

 

[Milosh]

The 13th Super Heavy Battery RA, somewhere in Kent

More info and photos Disused Stations: Station

"Although the villagers had been warned to open all their windows, considerable damage was caused in Kingston and Barham by the shock waves which brought down a number of ceilings. As a result, only two other test firings were made near World's Wonder bridge and at Lickpot bridge. It was on one of these trips that an officer in charge, on cautioning his men to be mindful of the low bridges, was promptly knocked unconscious himself as the gun passed underneath South Barham bridge!"

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man, I just love rail guns.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[fastmongrel]

Picture quality isnt great but you can see enough to know the ship was rolling and pitching and going to have ice cold water over the bows in a second. The Arctic Convoys must have been some of the worst conditions of any naval operation

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[syscom3]

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[Lucky13]

 

[Milosh]

No. 301 Polish Bomber Squadron "Land of Pomerania" (Polish: 301 Dywizjon Bombowy "Ziemi Pomorskiej")

HQ decided to disband 301 squadron on March 31, 1943. Most of the air crews and bomber aircraft were transferred to No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron.

The remaining volunteer crews were then attached to the RAF Tempsford-based No. 138 Squadron RAF as the newly formed C Flight operating the Handley Page Halifax bomber and still named locally by their ex 301 crews as 301 Squadron Special Duties Flight RAF (keeping the GR code).

Wiki

The 'C' marker would be the dispersal area (??).

 

[razor1uk]

Man, I just love rail guns.

Me too,especially the new (electro-mangnetic) one(s)...

Blitzer Railgun | General Atomics News Media

 

[syscom3]

A B25 is about to ruin the hull integrity of a IJN frigate. Note that a bomb has been released and is on its way.

 

[GrauGeist]

A B25 is about to ruin the hull integrity of a IJN frigate. Note that a bomb has been released and is on its way.

If you've ever had a bad day, just think about how the day was going for these poor bast*rds abord that Frigate...

From the looks of the bridge and aft superstructure, it's been getting a serious workout before the B-25 ever showed up!

 

[fastmongrel]

Wondr why the main guns are still fore and aft. Obviously caught on the hop or the lookouts were asleep.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Capt. Vick]

Wondr why the main guns are still fore and aft. Obviously caught on the hop or the lookouts were asleep.

Was thinking the same thing....

 

[GrauGeist]

If you enlarge the photo of that Japanese Frigate, you can see the crewmen manning the gun-batteries and several others between stations.

Kind of haunting to see them and know that the bomb was only a second or so away from impact.

 

[Lucky13]

Shortly, it's gonna get rather noisy!

 

[Njaco]

(curious about this one...) The remains of a Messerschmitt Me 262 of 2./KG 5, shot down over B86/Helmond, Holland, the previous day by a 40mm Bofors gun crew of No. 2875 (Anti-Aircraft) Squadron, RAF Regiment, are inspected by RAF and Army technical officers.


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[vikingBerserker]

Great shooting by the crew!