Picture of the day.

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Anti-aircraft fire at the Battle of Okinawa, March 1945.

 

[Wurger]

HMS Eskimo 1941

 

[rochie]

This picture was labelled "P-47 firing rockets", they look like british rocket projectiles to me ?

 

[Wurger]

Other sources say it's a gun camera picture of a rocket salvo, launched by a Hawker Typhoon towards railway wagons in a siding at Nordhorn, Germany (1945)

 

[rochie]

Other sources say it's a gun camera picture of a rocket salvo, launched by a Hawker Typhoon towards railway wagons in a siding at Nordhorn, Germany (1945)

I thought it was more likely to be Typhoon RP's, thanks Wojtek

 

[Airframes]

Yep, I've seen it a couple of times, attributed to a Typhoon. Great pic.

 

[Wurger]

Yep.. RP-3 IMHO....

Another similar shot...

 

[rochie]

Yep.. RP-3 IMHO....

Another similar shot...

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i almost posted that one !

 

[Wurger]

i almost posted that one !

What about that one?

 

[Wurger]

And one more..

 

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A Messerschmitt Bf 109 is prepared for test firing rockets...

 

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A French woman has her head shaved by civilians as a penalty for having consorted with German troops, around 1944

 

[Elmas]

Destroyers and submarines moored at Cagliari, Sardinia, late '30s.

 

[Elmas]

The report about the sinking of the light cruiser "Bande Nere". Regia Marina suffered a severe shortage of fuel so a speed of only 18 knots was ordered for trasfering from Messina, Sicily to the main base of La Spezia: but that speed, in an area where intense activity of enemy submarines was known, was little less than suicidal.

 

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[Wurger]

 

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