Picture of the day. (34 Viewers)

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

delousing and shaved pubes, IIRC. But what an an introduction ....

Oh .. in other words .. prevention. Just curious if he got the spacetime determined.

 

[Shinpachi]

That pic is too famous for us to be sad.
The guy is rather a hero like "Well done. Well endured."

 

[Capt. Vick]

Interesting

 

[vikingBerserker]

That is so odd to me. Perhaps the first Japanese soldier these guys had seen?

 

[Wurger]

Two shots of captured Polikarpov I-153 "Red 14"

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Tieleader]

A B-25H of the Earthquakers in China 1944. A veteran from my hometown,John Ferry, flew an amazing 75 (!!!) missions as a flight engineer/top gunner in the CBI. Mostly in this particular bird.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Africa Corps ... esprit de corps

 

[v2]

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[Wurger]

USS Tennessee

 

[v2]

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[Peter Gunn]

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If I'm not mistaken this was taken on Iwo Jima after either a B-29 crashed into the Mustang flight line or one of the P-51's lost an engine on takeoff, can't remember which now.

By the fuselage stripes it appears to be a 458FS ship from the 506FG.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff guys!

 

[fastmongrel]

This is actually the box art of a Trumpeteer kit for the RN Monitor HMS Roberts but I think its a cracker

 

[Wurger]

USS Ticonderoga CV-14 , May 1944 , Norfolk

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Milosh]

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What unit, time and place?

 

[michaelmaltby]

... sorry, not captioned. I try to include any information in the caption when I post.