Picture of the day.

[Tieleader]

"You clean it up!. No you!"

P-47 pilot Lt Edwin King, flak caused oil leak, landed safely, Italy Jan 45

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why is the "check engine" light flashing again? Must be another faulty fuse....

 

[Tieleader]

Gerhard Mix's Messerschmitt Bf 109F4 Trop Yellow 5 of 6.JG27 Yellow 5. Egypt, 14 Aug, 1942
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It followed me home, can I keep it?!

 

[Tieleader]

B-17s flying through extremely heavy flak
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Just watched an USAAF film on flak and how to avoid it. I'm guessing this is what the third is, "barrage"flak. Where all the guns fire at one predicted point in the sky instead of of continuously tracking with just 4 or 6 guns...

 

[Tieleader]

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No photo credit available.

Who says Cats don't like to be bathed!

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com
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[syscom3]

P-38 of Maj.Charles F. Matheson, Clastres, France 1944

 

[syscom3]

Soviet aircraft dominating the skies over Berlin.

 

[syscom3]

A P-51 Mustang (QV-J, serial number KM193) of No. 19 Squadron, RAF takes off at Peterhead, flown by Squadron Leader Peter Hearne, 20 April 1945.

 

[Capt. Vick]

P-38 of Maj.Charles F. Matheson, Clastres, France 1944

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"See that guy over there? I want you guys to kick his a$$."

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

New Zealander soldiers recapture a Matilda tank and take prisoner its German crew during Operation Crusader, 3 December 1941. War History Online.

 

[syscom3]

75 years ago today. April 25 1945.

American and Soviet meeting at Torgau as Germany is split in half. American 2nd Lt. William Robertson and Russian Lt. Alexander Sylvashko met near Torgau, Germany, 25 April 1945. This staged photograph is probably from the following day.

 

[syscom3]

A flight of Thunderbolts buzz ground crew salvaging written-off P-47 wreckage

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Shell stuck in a Tiger's track. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

8.8-cm FlaK 36 in an ambush position, Netherlands. 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

French resistance member Georges Blindes, smiles at the firing squad before him. Blindes was interrogated several times in this manner, but never said a words. He was eventually shipped off to a concentration camp in Blachownia Śląska, Poland, where he died in Oct 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Dr. Nagai of Nagasaki Hospital inspecting damage caused by the atomic bomb, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. Nagai would die of radiation poisoning a few days after this photo was taken. War History Online

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

Good shots guys!

Picture of the day.

Oh dear..... here we go again.