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[Dana Bell]

What plane is that? P-35, P-43?

Hey Cap,

It's a P-43 - note the inward retracting main gear. The P-35 gear retracted aft...

Cheers,



Dana

 

[Capt. Vick]

Thanks Dana

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Bombardment of Buka Airfield, Buka Island in the Solomons from the light cruiser USS Colombia's 6-in guns. 1 Nov 1943. On this date 76 years ago. No photo credit given.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

German heavy tank PzKpfw VI Tiger I №121 from the 101st SS Heavy Tank Battalion, which was destroyed by Allied aircraft in Villers-Bocage, Normandy, shortly after the famous battle when several Tiger I heavy tanks crushed a British armored column, and one Michael Wittmann destroyed 11 tanks, two anti-tank guns and 13 armored personnel carriers. June 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Repair of the landing gear of the Boeing B 17e Flying Fortress from the US technical personnel.

B-17 Flying Fortress bomber based on the territory of Ukraine. 169th Air Base special purpose Poltava airfield 1944.

1943, the US government asked Joseph Stalin allow Heavy Bombers US Air Force fly over Soviet territory to bomb targets in eastern Germany and the Balkans, so they do not go back to England or Italy. In early 1944, the Soviet Union has allocated for this flight three fields in Ukraine in Poltava region: Poltava, Mirgorod and Piryatin (Poltava airfield complex, 169th Airbase of special purpose). Airfields were covered by Soviet air defense aircraft on airfields themselves everything was organized at the highest level.
No photo credit available.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com
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[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

Foto + Winterkampf Panzerjäger I.R. 57 +94154 | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

Nice Camo job on the horses Friedrich... Now get me my bed linnen back.

Foto + Winterkampf Panzerjäger I.R. 57 +94156 | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

1940 Press Photo British mother & children walk after losing home in German raid | eBay

 

[swampyankee]

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[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com
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[michaelmaltby]

Toronto Sun
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[Graeme]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Six months later .... midway6-e1572733966192-jpg.559394 ]Toronto Sun}

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

[michaelmaltby]

Toronto Sun
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[at6]

1940 Press Photo British mother & children walk after losing home in German raid | eBay

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I told him that the bloody condoms were defective!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tieleader]

I told him that the bloody condoms were defective!!!!!!!!!

 

[Snautzer01]

1984 Press Photo Popular World War II slogans in "All This And World War II" | eBay