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[vikingBerserker]

LMAO

That was bad Bill, well done!

 

[syscom3]

Are those two DUKW's lashed together to act like a ferry?

 

[GrauGeist]

Are those two DUKW's lashed together to act like a ferry?

They were. This "mode" of transporting aircraft was used in several occasions in the early years of the PTO.

Of course, this was in and around the islands...not open seas.

BTW, I have several others archived somewhere...I'll have to scrounge around and find them

 

[Milosh]

Another example, this time transporting a truck.

 

[Airframes]

Could they be 120 pound GP bombs

Must admit, I hadn't looked closely. I'd agree they're either 120 or 150lb bombs.

 

[Lucky13]

Boombastic thingmajigs that goes boooom and leaves a mess!

Edit: Forgot the pic....

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

It looks like one of the portable dry docks they used in the Phillipines.

 

[syscom3]

A Sd.Kfz. 11/5 in Russia towing a 21 cm Nebelwerfer 42

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[fastmongrel]

I like driving in my little tank

 

[Lucky13]

Oooook......I'm just gonna toss it right out there and say it, but........what the f..k is that?

 

[Milosh]

Boombastic thingmajigs that goes boooom and leaves a mess!

What is the name of the thingmajig?

I have a feeling it is British as can't think of an American ship with a ram bow.

 

[Lucky13]

That, young man, is USS Pennsylvania, BB-38...

 

[Milosh]

Ah thanks.

Reading up on BB-38, could the photo have been taken at Guam?

"On 18 August, Pennsylvania departed Buckner Bay, Okinawa, under tow by two tugs. She arrived Apra Harbor, Guam on 6 September and entered drydock where a large sheet steel patch was welded over the torpedo hole and repairs to permit her to return to the United States under her own power were made."

 

[nuuumannn]

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.

A bit more ship recognition. The Japanese ship about to be hit by the bomb from the B-25 is/was the Japanese Type 'D' Escort No.6; you can see the '6' on its funnel. 102 of these anti-submarine/AA vessels were built between March 1944 and the end of the war. They had a complement of 160 men and were armed with 2 x 4.7 in/45 cal and 6 x 25mm AA, although this number was increased as the war wore on, a 3 in A/S mortar and 120 depth charges could be carried. No.6 was launched in 1944 and completed on 2 April. Badly damaged on 24, 25 and 28 July 1945 by US aircraft of Toba, Mie Prefecture. One book I have lists its fate as sunk on 28 July 1945, although the second has it broken up on 30 June 1948 - presumably raised.

 

[Glider]

She took a lot of sinking for a small ship

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Yes, it did.

 

[syscom3]

Surrender: A Canadian soldier helps a German officer out of his half-track vehicle from the 2nd Panzer Division outside a U.S. aid station near Chambois

 

[vikingBerserker]

I am not sure Guam had a dry dock, but it could be one of the floating dry docks so it could be located in Guam.

 

[Lucky13]