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[KiwiBiggles]

Interesting get-up the pilot's in: khaki battledress, including webbing, the mandatory silk scarf and what look suspiciously like tennis shoes.

I imagine the serious modellers here are taking very careful note of the weathering, especially on the spinner.

 

[pbehn]

Who is that woman smoking a cigarette next to an armed fighter?

 

[Airframes]

Many 2 TAF pilots (possibly all) were issued with khaki battledress in Normandy. It was thought that the RAF 'blue' could be mistaken for German uniform, if they were shot down and belly landed or parachuted, the idea being to help prevent 'friendly fire' incidents, and also, of course, to aid in concealment in the event of evasion.
The black on the Typhoon spinner, another 'trademark' of 2TAF, looks to have been painted over the original 'Sky'.

 

[Wurger]

Who is that woman smoking a cigarette next to an armed fighter?

Perhaps, young Jan...

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

She'd have a beer also wouldn't she Wurger?

 

[v2]

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[michaelmaltby]

SS tattoo blood type

 

[michaelmaltby]

The pan-Euro Waffen SS

 

[Capt. Vick]

I just never understood joining your conqeurer. Guess I had to be there.

 

[michaelmaltby]

"... Guess I had to be there."
Would that have helped ...?

 

[Graeme]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Hansie Bloeckmann]

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A "Tinker-Toy" tank? USN Sea-Bees???

Superb demolition
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[buffnut453]

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Great photo of a MkI fighter Blenheim. Note the blast plate under the nose to protect the lower fuselage from muzzle flash. Also note the Light Series Carrier under the fuselage, visible between the prop blade and the chap in the trench coat. It's likely this was the configuration flown by the 27 Sqn Blenheims on 8 Dec 41 when they flew their first operations trying to interdict the Japanese landings on the Malayan coastline.

 

[Hansie Bloeckmann]

I may be wrong, but it looks like he only has three fingers on that hand also.

Looks to me like he has all his left hand fingers- but his thumb is bandaged..

 

[Graeme]

A "Tinker-Toy" tank? USN Sea-Bees???

Normandy. US Navy men with Goliath (Beetle?)...

D-Day: June 6 1944 In 39 Unforgettable Photos - Flashbak

 

[Greg Boeser]

I just never understood joining your conqeurer. Guess I had to be there.

Plenty of folks want to be on the "right side of history". German propaganda was very convincing, until about 1943...

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Nazi instruction on poisoned racial purity "science"

 

[Capt. Vick]

"... Guess I had to be there."
Would that have helped ...?

For me to understand, perhaps. For me to stop it, certainly not. For me to join, no. Clear things up.