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[michaelmaltby]

don't analyze it .....

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Snautzer01]

Org WWII Army Photographers Lot: Captured German Elite Troops, Italy 1945 COLOR! | eBay

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Shinpachi]

Thanks for your kind explanation, Snautzer.
I understood the "I take your word for it." as "I'll keep that in mind for the future debate."

 

[syscom3]

A B24 of the 376th BG, the "Liberando's". 15th AF.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Dana Bell]

Nice shot of B-24 #71 - I hadn't seen that one before! The aircraft is Blue Streak, one of the original Halpro aircraft. "Borrowed" from a British production order, the aircraft was delivered with Dark Olive Drab uppers and Deep Sky Blue undersides.

She was later featured on the box art for the Revell 1/72nd scale kit.

Cheers,



Dana

 

[Graeme]

Playing amongst inert shells in Munich.

From the net.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[michaelmaltby]

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[Snautzer01]

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And what is "Karate Master... 10th dan?? and Jinlong is your name or something??? . You little man brrr now i'm scared....."

 

[Snautzer01]

Japan Post WWII 1956-57 Personal Photographs Vintage 93 Military Photos Album | eBay

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

A Curtiss R5C Commando after releasing parachute packs with supplies for construction units repairing the main airstrip on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands. Mar 6, 1945. Note B-29 Superfortress on the ground.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

USAAF North American P-51D Mustangs of the 45th Fighter Squadron lined up on South Field, Iwo Jima, March 7, 1945. Fire is from a P-51 from the 78th Fighter Squadron that crashed on landing and struck two parked 45th Fighter Squadron P-51s.

 

[syscom3]

Colonel James Beckwith, commander of the 15th Fighter Group, in his P-51 Mustang 'Squirt' leading P-51s of the 45th Fighter Squadron from their base on Saipan to their new base on Iwo Jima, March 7, 1945. Note the VLR tanks. The basing of Mustangs at Iwo meant that now B-29 raids from the Marianas could pick up fighter support as they approached Japan.

 

[michaelmaltby]

That is a very stirring photo ... speaks to the supremacy of the US in the Pacific Campaign. Distances and scales involved, this campaign is arguably the most complicated campaign in human history. Made more impressive becuase the campaign went from idle in neutral to turbo ovrrdrive in only four years.