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[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Bundesarchive photos 1933 - 1945

 

[nuuumannn]

The caption said it was on Espiritu Santo island. Thus it was staging to or from the Solomons.

Espiritu Santo is one of the islands of the New Hebrides, today Vanuatu and 25 Sqn RNZAF was based there with its Dauntlesses from January 1944, In March that year the unit moved to Bouganville, PNG.

 

[Milosh]

View attachment 497665 Bundesarchive photos 1933 - 1945

Kangaroo?

 

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[GrauGeist]

A Brewster F2A set up at Langley's wind tunnel, 1938

 

[Wurger]

 

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[Wayne Little]

cool shots..!

 

[michaelmaltby]

Bundesarchive photos 1933 - 1945

 

[michaelmaltby]

"... Kangaroo?"
Not specified, but quite possible.
Kangaroo (armoured personnel carrier) - Wikipedia

 

[Peter Gunn]

View attachment 497665 Bundesarchive photos 1933 - 1945

Could be a Sherman based Kangaroo, the hull (I think) looks like an M4 but the tread design seems wrong, Shermies usually have the \__/ shape.


Also on the StuG v. T-34, who rammed who do you suppose?

 

[yulzari]

Loading up a Land Mattress 30 barrel multiple rocket launcher. Developed by the Canadian Army from the Sea Mattress system used on D Day from Landing Craft (the rocket motor was the same as used on Z Battery AA rocket and the RAF 3inch ground attack rocket) the rockets were fitted with a 5 inch 60 pound warhead and could be launched 4 a seond to a range of 8,000 yards. The rockets were fin stabilized but the launch tubes had spiral guide rails to give the rockets spin and improve accuracy. The launchers were built by the AC Cars company famous post war for its Ace and Cobra sports cars.

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and here are some A.C. Cobra chassis tubes in waiting. Just as the early Cooper racing cars used Morrison shelter steel. While Ferrari were getting MAP machinery post war the British relied on suitable scrap steel.

 

[buffnut453]

Two German members of the Organisation Todt are sitting on top of a Spitfire that is sinking into the sand on the coast in Calais, France.

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That Spit is now airworthy again.

Spitfire Mark 1 faithfully restored after sells for world record £3.1m | Daily Mail Online

 

[Milosh]

Could be a Sherman based Kangaroo, the hull (I think) looks like an M4 but the tread design seems wrong, Shermies usually have the \__/ shape.

Could be a Canadian Ram conversion.

 

[GrauGeist]

Wind tunnel testing for the P-51B airframe at Langley

 

[michaelmaltby]

Bundesarchive photos 1933 - 1945

 

[at6]

Bundesarchive photos 1933 - 1945

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Vee haff to hammer zee bread. Iss zo werry hardt. Oh why did we get Han's Frau to do the cooking?