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[michaelmaltby]

Dresden, 1945

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

 

[at6]

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"Is this still under warranty/"

 

[michaelmaltby]

The last Buick ....

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Elmas]

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"I paid 50 marks down, the rest in instalments!"

 

[fastmongrel]

 

[Glider]

I don't know the RAF loss rates but the Boston was well liked in the RAF but they much preferred the earlier versions without the powered turret.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Stuka zu Fuss (Stuka on foot) firing during the Warsaw Uprising
Stuka Zu Fuss!

 

[Elmas]

Even before the start of WWII the Italians were not at all convinced that "Germany is truly your Friend" so Fascism tried to convice them with street posters like this

and songs, like this


View: https://youtu.be/PFBfucH9mpo




but the bombing of the Italian Cities, the defeats everywhere and the food getting more and more scarce were by far more convincing that all the propaganda rigged up by the "Regime".

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

Su-2

 

[fubar57]

Same aircraft as in Post #9455. Caption says "Handley Page Halifax B Mark II, HR837 'NP-F', of No. 158 Squadron." Hit by a falling bomb

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[michaelmaltby]

... if it was falling, surely the skin would be folded into the puncture. This looks like an upward thrust, IMHO

 

[rochie]

Rp's hit a building after being fired fromRAF Typhoons !

 

[Airframes]

Re the Halifax pic - in one of my books there is some info regarding the incident, and the crew. The damage was from a falling bomb, and the skin has been punched inwards. What appears to be upward damage aft of the turret is the remains of the turret ring fairing, hanging loose.

 

[Greg Boeser]

... if it was falling, surely the skin would be folded into the puncture. This looks like an upward thrust, IMHO

Impact pushed skin in, ripped rivets loose, loose skin ripped rearward by slipstream.

 

[Wurger]

Here she is....