Picture of the day.

[Crimea_River]

Source de Havilland Aircraft Museum FB Page:

"Remembering Sir Geoffrey de Havilland OM CBE AFC RDI FRAeS, who died 21st May 1965. Engineer, aviation pioneer, innovator, naturalist, Hertfordshire's largest employer in his day, and the father of today's aerospace industry. A true great in the worlds of science, technology & engineering."

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

A Corsair of VF-17 landing on the USS Bunker Hill 1943. Note the hook has engaged the arrestor cable.

 

[Crimea_River]

What a great shot!

 

[syscom3]

Consolidated TBY-2 Sea Wolf in flight over Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland, on 22 May 1945. One of the more interesting "what-if" aircraft of the war. The original design was not by Consolidated Aircraft, but rather by Vought, who designed the then XTBU-1 Sea Wolf to a 1939 US Navy requirement. The first prototype flew two weeks after Pearl Harbor. Its performance was deemed superior to the Grumman TBF Avenger and the Navy placed an order for 1,000 examples.

Several unfortunate incidents intervened; the prototype was damaged in a rough arrested landing trial, and when repaired a month later was again damaged in a collision with a training aircraft. Once repaired again, the prototype was accepted by the Navy. However, by this time Vought was heavily over-committed to other contracts, especially for the F4U Corsair fighter, and had no production capacity. It was arranged that Consolidated-Vultee would produce the aircraft (as the TBY), but this had to wait until the new production facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was complete, which took until late 1943. The production TBYs were radar-equipped, with a radome under the right-hand wing. The first aircraft flew on 20 August 1944. By this time though, the Avenger equipped every torpedo squadron in the Navy, and there was no need for the Sea Wolf; in addition, numerous small problems delayed entry into service. Orders were cancelled after production started, and the 180 built were used for training.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

Just a split second away from disaster! A Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu ("Dragon Slayer") attacking a squadron of B29 Superfortresses over Japan, 1945

 

[Airframes]

Jeez, that's ****ing close !!
If those are smoke puffs from the tail guns of the two B-29's, then it looks like there was more than one attacker.

Edited to correct typo.

 

[Crimea_River]

Great pic.

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Marine pilot, 2nd Lt. William W. Edlridge of Hixon, Tenn., stands on the wing of his Corsair fighter plane on Okinawa on May 23, 1945. He was a student at the University of Chattanooga, Tenn. before leaving to enter flight training.

 

[syscom3]

Sailors prep a TDD-2 target drone on May 23, 1945 on the catapult of the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64).

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A Japanese shell explodes in front of a M4 of A Company, 763rd Tank Battalion, sheltering soldiers from the 96th Infantry Division from the shell's shrapnel, Okinawa. Apr 1945. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The only information that came with this photograph was B-17F – 97 Bomb group. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Waist gunner killed, ball turret gunner killed, radio operator blown out of the airplane completely, but this Fort still managed to get home and land without cracking in half. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

B-17 damaged in collision with Fw190 in head-on attack. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Canadian soldier fires on the enemy in a house in Caen, 10 July 1944. War History Online

 

[Glider]

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Canadian soldier fires on the enemy in a house in Caen, 10 July 1944. War History Online

Note that he is using a German MP40 smg. Replacing the Sten with captured MP40's was common practice and indeed was the policy in some units such as the Essex Regiment.