Picture of the day.

GrauGeist · Apr 3, 2014

Lucky13 said:
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 · Apr 3, 2014

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 · Apr 3, 2014

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 · Apr 3, 2014

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

Gnomey · Apr 3, 2014

Good stuff guys!

Lucky13 · Apr 4, 2014

GrauGeist said:
Hey, don't forget the 202!!

....and the '202 of course!

Shortround6 · Apr 4, 2014

fastmongrel said:
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

View attachment 258369

Just what I need for commuting into NY City

Wildcat · Apr 4, 2014

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

Lucky13 · Apr 4, 2014

Milosh · Apr 4, 2014

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

vikingBerserker · Apr 4, 2014

Very cool!

GrauGeist · Apr 4, 2014

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 · Apr 4, 2014

That is just amazing!

GrauGeist · Apr 4, 2014

vikingBerserker said:
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 · Apr 5, 2014

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 · Apr 5, 2014

fastmongrel · Apr 5, 2014

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 · Apr 5, 2014

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

vikingBerserker · Apr 5, 2014

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

fastmongrel · Apr 5, 2014

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.

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