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[Lucky13]

P-61A 42-5524 Midnight Mickey of the 6th Night Fighter Squadron Saipan June 1944....

 

[syscom3]

A high price was paid. The remains of the 492nd Bomb Group's Sans Souci, B-24J s/n 42-50719. She collided with another B-24 on landing, completely destroying both aircraft. 11 men died in the crash; one aboard Sans Souci, and 10 on the other B-24, Lucky Strike. 6 August, 1944.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[michaelmaltby]

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[jetcal1]

This is not going to end well! Hellcat takeoff, USS Sable, Gt.Lakes 1943

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Isn't this a F4F?

 

[syscom3]

Isn't this a F4F?

It is but I haven't updated my commentary.

 

[jetcal1]

It is but I haven't updated my commentary.

Thank you.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

B-29 ground collision, Iwo Jima, no serious injuries

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Looking out of a Tiger's cupola in the Kursk salient, July 1943. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

U.S. Ordnance Officers Inspect a Captured German StG-44 fitted with a Krummlauf device, supposed to be used to cover the dead areas in close range around a tank. No photo credit available.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Snautzer01]

1940 Press Photo London, Eng. - Daisy Cardwell who "captured" a German airman | eBay

 

[swampyankee]

It seems that she captured him; why the scare quotes?

 

[Capt. Vick]

I assume it was because he might not have resisted?

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[vikingBerserker]

Was he a German Shepard?????