Picture of the day.

[Wurger]

 

[Peter Gunn]

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"OK, hold still, this is gonna hurt you a LOT more than it will me..."

 

[syscom3]

A Pilot evacuates his burning F6F-3 fighter aboard USS Cowpens (CVL-25) after landing. The pilot was Lieutenant (JG) Alfred W. Magee, Jr. The fire started as the Hellcat approached Cowpens for an emergency landing, and the pilot was unaware of it until after touchdown. The firefighters put out the flames in a minute and a half, with no casualties. November 24th, 1943.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Hansie Bloeckmann]

Think it's a 75 mm, possibly PAK.

I could not distinguish between the 88 mm and the 75 mm cannon. Either one, at the muzzle area, would "scramble your eggs" in a heartbeat-Hansie

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Nice looking shoes- Peel of Bond Street perhaps. Vented Norfolk jacket, full cuffed breeches- I am sure he is wearing a tie as well. No one dresses like a British gentleman, that's for sure...

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Graeme]

 

[v2]

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[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Peter Gunn]

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"Well, it's better than walking ja?"

 

[v2]

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[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Shortround6]

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ah ha, Now we know who to blame for the Smart Car craze

 

[v2]

Young soviet partisan. Let's see...he packs a PPSh full auto sub-machinegun, several types of hand grenades and, last but not least, two Nagant revolvers , one in the holster, the other put inside the belt..

 

[Graeme]

 

[Peter Gunn]

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See my post #10521 above, seems I jumped the gun on the caption for the itsy bitsy tankey thingey...

 

[Wurger]

Young soviet partisan. Let's see...he packs a PPSh full auto sub-machinegun, several types of hand grenades and, last but not least, two Nagant revolvers , one in the holster, the other put inside the belt..

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Armed to the deciduous teeth ...

 

[michaelmaltby]

... deciduously armed, you might say