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[Snautzer01]

WW2 Picture Photo Sexy Rita Hayworth sacrificed her bumpers for war 1942 0082 | eBay

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

RAF B-26s in formation over Egypt, likely 1943.
I didn't know the Brits used B-26's. You learn something new every day.

 

[Crimea_River]

News to me as well. Good pic.

 

[michaelmaltby]

South African AF were also principal users, IIRC

 

[syscom3]

Since the British freed Belsen concentration camp, everything possible has been done to make the children forget any horrors they may have seen there. Most of these children had Jewish blood and many of their parents died in the camp. British soldiers have given up their cigarette rations to the adults and their sweets ration to the children of Belsen camp. Toys have also been requisitioned from nearby towns. Children playing on the swings at the Belsen concentration camp, Germany on April 26, 1945, which are erected by a R.E.M.E. detachment. A British soldier gives a helping hand.

 

[syscom3]

P-51 Mustangs lined up on the flight line, Hickam Army Airfield, Oahu, Territory of Hawai'i.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Kristiansund during the Nazi bombing late April to May, 1940. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

French R-35 near the French-German border during the Phoney War, 1940. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

"Soviet Union, North – A halted StuG III convoy during the advance through Latvia, July 1941."

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[Greg Boeser]

RAF B-26s in formation over Egypt, likely 1943.
I didn't know the Brits used B-26's. You learn something new every day.


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These are Marauder Is of RAF 14 Sqn.
They were used in North Africa and the Med for anti-shipping and maritime reconnaissance. 14 Sqn has the distinction of being the only Marauder unit to conduct successful torpedo attacks vs enemy shipping, sinking a couple ships in the Aegean Sea in early '43.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

Martin PBM Mariners

 

[michaelmaltby]

... it strikes me that there is something profound vastly historical ... about this picture ... and about why Hitler was able to motivate and move so many millions of Christians. Just finished a re-read of Panzer Gunner, an account by a Canadian-born Mennonite whose parents had NEVER lived in Germany but were German Ukrainians. His parents sent him and his brother BACK to Germany in 1937. The father then left Canada for Germany and father and son both served on the Eastern Front. Hitler spun fibers of myth and history and made an irresistible 'magic carpet'

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

P-51 Mustang fighter planes of No. 316 Polish Fighter Squadron lined up for take off at Andrews Field in Great Britain, 27 April 1945.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Somewhere in the Pacific. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

USAAF Capt. Dewey E. Newhart with his Republic P-47D-15-RE Thunderbolt "Mud N' Mules" of 350th Fighter Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group, 8th Air Force. No photo credit available.