Picture of the day. (57 Viewers)

[GrauGeist]

Bl**dy beautiful birds the '55, '205 and '2005.....

Hey, don't forget the 202!!

Here's some Tigers fording a river in Tarnopol, Ukraine, April 1944

 

[fastmongrel]

M3 75 mm SP guns used for indirect fire in Italy, 18 February 1945. They must be expecting a long fire mission going by all the ammo stacked ready to use.

 

[fastmongrel]

Staghound MkIII armoured car. It has had its original turret with a 37mm gun removed and replaced with a Crusader tank turret mounting a 75mm Gun

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Here's a link to the video of the photo that Syscom posted yesterday.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdrISbwy_zI

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff guys!

 

[Lucky13]

Hey, don't forget the 202!!

....and the '202 of course!

 

[Shortround6]

Staghound MkIII armoured car. It has had its original turret with a 37mm gun removed and replaced with a Crusader tank turret mounting a 75mm Gun

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Just what I need for commuting into NY City

 

[Wildcat]

27 Feb 44. Vultee vengeance aircraft of 24 sqn RAAF return from a raid on Madang airfield, New Guinea.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Milosh]

Lucky, you always post some real interesting photos, but how about giving some details about the posted photo.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very cool!

 

[GrauGeist]

I've posted this photo in other threads in the past, most recently today in a bomber versus fighter discussion.

Then it occurred to me that it might be fitting for the "Picture of the Day" since this happened exactly 69 years ago today.

This is a B-24M (44-50838) that was hit by a salvo of R4M rockets launched by a Me262 on 4 April 1945. Only one crewmember, Cpl. Charles Cupp, Jr., survived.

 

[vikingBerserker]

That is just amazing!

 

[GrauGeist]

That is just amazing!

It's a hard picture to look at, knowing that the crew is still aboard. If you look just to the left of the tail assembly, you'll see a patch of debris. Look closely in that debris and find the ball turret. The gunner was still strapped in...

 

[N4521U]

The B-24 is hard to look at??????

How about all them sailors running off the hull of the Barham???
Take a closer look!

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[fastmongrel]

I-16 looks like a dead engine landing because the prop isnt damaged but the bottom of the cowling is where it presumably nosed over.

Image from miliblog a really good site with lots of photos that are new to me

 

[fastmongrel]

An I-15 that looks like another emergency landing or the result of a ground attack I am not sure

 

[vikingBerserker]

Great pics gents! Since the landing gear looks ok, I'm guessing ground attack.

 

[fastmongrel]

I agree with you on the I-15 definitely GA but the I-16 there looks to be scrape marks running back from it so not so sure on that. Unless it was dragged off a runway to clear it for LW use.