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• Apr 24, 2020

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"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....

 

• Apr 24, 2020

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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?!

 

• Apr 24, 2020

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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...

 

• Apr 24, 2020

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Who says Cats don't like to be bathed!

 

• Apr 24, 2020

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• Apr 24, 2020

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

 

• Apr 24, 2020

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Soviet aircraft dominating the skies over Berlin.

 

• Apr 24, 2020

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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.

 

• Apr 24, 2020

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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$$."

 

• Apr 25, 2020

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• Apr 25, 2020

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

 

• Apr 25, 2020

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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.

 

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• Apr 25, 2020

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

 

• Apr 25, 2020

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

 

• Apr 25, 2020

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

 

• Apr 25, 2020

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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.

 

• Apr 25, 2020

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Good shots guys!

 

• Apr 26, 2020

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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

 

• Apr 26, 2020

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• Apr 26, 2020

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Gnomey said:

Good shots guys!

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