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[Airframes]

"No, two Donner Kebabs and one meat feast pizza - and it's the second trench, not the third !"

 

[Snautzer01]

A P-47 Thunderbolt of the U.S. Army 12th Air Force may be seen flying low over the crumbled ruins of the Berghof, Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden, three weeks after cessation of hostilities, 26 May 1945.

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Inviting the us 12th to your house warming party was not that good an idea after all

 

[michaelmaltby]

"No, two Donner Kebabs and one meat feast pizza - and it's the second trench, not the third !"

"Would it KILL you to get it right?"

 

[syscom3]

DANG!!!!! Corsair of VF-85 emergency landing on Shangri-La after midair collision with US fighter during dogfight

 

[syscom3]

N.A.A.F.I. (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) women in Hamburg, Germany after hearing the terrible stories from this Russian woman who was an inmate of Belsen Camp for three years shake hands and wish her a brighter future as they leave her. May 27, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz standing beneath the main guns of the British battleship HMS King George V and addressing British sailors. Guam, 27 May 1945.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

Corsair jet-assisted takeoff tests. Note the Avenger and Hellcat in back.

 

[Airframes]

Wonder if they got singed ?!!

 

[swampyankee]

Corsair jet-assisted takeoff tests. Note the Avenger and Hellcat in back.

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Rockets, gasoline, and wooden decks. What could go wrong?

Oh, and how toxic is that rocket exhaust?

 

[michaelmaltby]

Fighting for Veronezh, 1942 [Wikipedia]

 

[buffnut453]

Corsair jet-assisted takeoff tests. Note the Avenger and Hellcat in back.

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Methinks that "Hellcat" is a Wildcat...which is even stranger to see aboard a carrier with Corsairs.

 

[syscom3]

One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, German prisoners landscape the first U.S. cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, near Omaha Beach, May 28, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

The FIDO fog dispersal system at Graveley, Huntingdonshire, as an Avro Lancaster of No. 35 Squadron RAF takes off in deteriorating weather, 28 May 1945.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[yulzari]

Methinks that "Hellcat" is a Wildcat...which is even stranger to see aboard a carrier with Corsairs.

Perhaps this is a delivery using an escort carrier. hence the rocket assisted take off for aeroplanes normally unable to do so from the short decks? The Wildcat would be the carrier's own complement.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

Avenger taking off from the USS Yorktown. Looks like its taking off heading towards the stern of the carrier. Why would they do that?

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[syscom3]

Another picture of the Corsair that landed on the USS Shangri-La with heavy famage.

 

[syscom3]

Crocodile flamethrowers of the 79th Armoured Division ("C" Squadron 12 Troops 7th Battalion Royal Tanks) at work spraying the typhus- and lice-contaminated ground of the Belsen Concentration Camp with liquid flame.