Picture of the day. (2 Viewers)

[jetcal1]

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.

A lot of historians have questioned the need to take Iwo citing various factors. I personally think it's a matter of 20/20 hindsight as the the first night raids from the Marianas occurred after Iwo had been invaded.

 

[syscom3]

I have never seen this picture. It is amazing! A B-25 Mitchell of the 77th Bomb Squadron under attack by a Japanese fighter in the Aleutians.

 

[syscom3]

A lot of historians have questioned the need to take Iwo citing various factors. I personally think it's a matter of 20/20 hindsight as the the first night raids from the Marianas occurred after Iwo had been invaded.

No one expected the battle to be a blood bath.

 

[Greg Boeser]

I have never seen this picture. It is amazing! A B-25 Mitchell of the 77th Bomb Squadron under attack by a Japanese fighter in the Aleutians.

View attachment 572628

More likely over Paramishiru.
The Aleutians had been recovered by mid-'43. This is a much later photo.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com
bundesarchiv_bild_101i-218-0507-10-_russland-_leichte_flak_auf_halbkettenfahrzeug-jpg.572631

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

JFK on PT-59. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A gunner squeezes into the belly turret of a B-17. Copyright LIFE magazine.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Destroyed Panzer IV, possibly by internal explosion, judging by how the side armor has been pushed away from the tank. No photo credit available.

 

[N4521U]

View attachment 572634

(best prank)
There's no Toilet in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Snautzer01]

1940 Press Photo British soldier on duty in Egypt wearing sand storm visor | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

1944 Press Photo William Paultz receives a 36-foot letter while serving in Italy | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

Foto, WK2, 13.u.14./541I.D., rtg. Stalingrad, d.Eis u.Schnee.....5,1942 5026-571 | eBay
Foto, WK2, 13.u.14./541 I.D., rtg. Stalingrad, d.Eis u.Schnee.....,1942 5026-571 | eBay
Foto, WK2, 13.u.14./541 I.D., rtg. Stalingrad, d.Eis u.Schnee....4,1942 5026-571 | eBay

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com
bundesarchiv_bild_101i-218-0510-08-_russland-su-d-_funkpanzerwagen-_panzer_iv-jpg.572695

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com
bundesarchiv_bild_101i-218-0510-03-_russland-su-d-_schu-tzenpanzer_auf_dem_marsch-jpg.572747

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Column of Soviet T-34 tanks at Konigsberg, East Prussia, 1945. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The machine guns of Hawker Hurricane Mark I, P2627, of No. 274 Squadron RAF, are tested in front of the butts at Amriya, Egypt. https://wrhstol.com/2TFQxBf

 

[Tieleader]

Histomil.com
bundesarchiv_bild_101i-218-0510-03-_russland-su-d-_schu-tzenpanzer_auf_dem_marsch-jpg.572747
View attachment 572747

The vehicle the picture was taken from appears to be 251/9 Stummel version with the 7.5cm gun.

 

[Tieleader]

View attachment 572757

Column of Soviet T-34 tanks at Konigsberg, East Prussia, 1945. No photo credit available.

Don't know if many of you have had the chance to sit the driver's seat of a T-34 but it takes a considerable amount of contortions to drop in!

 

[jetcal1]

No one expected the battle to be a blood bath.

Right, nobody had foreseen the night raids either when the invasion was planned. That partially relieved the need for escort fighters.