Picture of the day.

[yulzari]

Dambusters bomb.View attachment 509441 View attachment 509442
https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/the-dambusters-barnes-wallis-and-the-bouncing-bomb/

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=392&v=LzFxCb_vVpk

Is the middle one not a Highball anti shipping version?

 

[michaelmaltby]

The Germans' archive

 

[Peter Gunn]

An oft used photo, but one of my favorites.
No caption needed really but I'll put it up anyway:
"General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "Full victory--nothing else" to paratroopers somewhere in England, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe"
Source: U.S. Library of Congress

 

[Peter Gunn]

Caption - "Lt. Virginia N. Justy, 502 1/2 South Ogden St., Los Angeles, Calif., in front of Airdrome status map in ops. room looking at documents at a table in the United States 8th Air Force headquarters operations room, possibly outside London, England."

Source - U.S. Library of Congress

 

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[Capt. Vick]

Oooh that's eerie

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

And COLD!

 

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[Milosh]

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View attachment 509487

Going to get citations for driving with only one head light.

 

[Elmas]

Antiaircraft guns 90/53, IIIa Batteria 17^ Legione Milizia Artiglieria Contraerea.
Island of St. Antioco, (West of Sardinia), 1943.

Source: Wikimapia.

 

[Peter Gunn]

And COLD!

Glad to see you back my friend, missed you.

 

[Peter Gunn]

One heck of a bow wave, must be doing 70 knots...
Either the U.S.S. Florida, Utah, Delaware or North Dakota following either the U.S.S. New York or Texas circa 1915.
Source - U.S. Library of Congress

 

[Greg Boeser]

Looks like she's plowing into heavy swell.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Good stuff.

 

[Elmas]

Scuola Elementare "Alberto Riva Villasanta" destroyed, 1943.
In this School, recostructed, I attended IVth and Vth Elementary Classes, early '60s.

 

[michaelmaltby]

The Germans' archive

 

[michaelmaltby]

The Germans' archive

 

[Elmas]

A "Brigadiere dei Carabinieri" and an "Artificiere del Genio" dispose of two mortar shells M49A2 with 190 g TNT inside and a antitank rifle grenade M9A1, both american made, found at Ragusa, Sicily, 2015.

All the shells were in a bad shape and could have exploded at any moment, if improperly handled.



(source: quotidianodiRagusa)

 

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