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[Wayne Little]

Great shots.

 

[Snautzer01]

Orig. Foto / Stalingrad / PPSch-41 / Russische Rote Sowjet Armee | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

Foto 2 WK, Frankreich Hafen Schiff mit Bemalung Drache Frachter Kriegsschiff Top | eBay

 

[Dana Bell]

A few years back my brother inherited the personal photo collection of a 101st Airborne paratrooper. The collection included this image, a 4x5 CT taken from the Eiffel Tower:

A neat enough image - but a closer look at the 4th FG Mustang showed a very unusual color on the anti-glare panel:

I can't say I'd have guessed light blue if that had been a black and white photo!

Cheers,



Dana

 

[syscom3]

Dauntlesses of VC-29, on the USS Santee. Looks to be an Atlantic convoy.

 

[syscom3]

General Dwight Eisenhower received a tumultuous welcome from the people of London June 12, when he drove in an open carriage through the city to the Guildhall where he received the Freedom of the city of London. After the ceremony, Gen. Eisenhower drove to the Mansion House where he was guest of honor at a luncheon given by the Lord Mayor and attended by the Prime Minister. General Eisenhower standing in his open carriage waves to the gigantic crowd which assembled at the Mansion House to greet his arrival after the Freedom of the city had been bested on him by the Lord Mayor in London June 12, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

The Commander of the 21st Army Group Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and the Deputy Supreme Commander in Chief of the Red Army, Marshal G Zhukov after the ceremony in which Marshal Zhukov was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath by Field Marshal Montgomery. The ceremony took place at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and a Guard of Honour was formed by the 7th Armoured Division.

 

[syscom3]

The Commander of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Marshal K Rokossovsky is invested as a Knight Commander of the British Empire by the Commander of the 21st Army Group, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

 

[syscom3]

Surrendered U-boats at Lisahally, Northern Ireland. June 12, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

TBM and SB2C aircraft parked at the aft of the flight deck of U.S. Navy Essex-class fleet aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12), June 12, 1945. USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) and two other carriers follow the Hornet.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com

 

[syscom3]

A B-29 crash-landed on Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, after fighters disabled two engines on a bombing run over Osaka, 10 March 1945.

 

[michaelmaltby]

... that kinda brings it all home.

 

[syscom3]

P-47D Thunderbolt of the 9th US Air Force, 13 June 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle, the first Tokyo raider, flew a Boeing B-29 Super Fortress for the first time at Seattle, June 13, 1945, and called it ''a marvelous airplane''. He's shown in the plane just before the take-off.

 

[Snautzer01]

Working on the Tail Fuse of a AN-M64 "Carpetbagger" General Purpose 500lb bomb in the Forward bomb bay of a B-29 Superfortress. This picture in B&Whas been around since WW2. Here is a colorized version of it. The name of the mechanic working on the bombs has been lost to time. But he has become immortalized as this picture continues to circulate 75 years after the picture was snapped.

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Boeing B-29 Superfortress

the original

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com

 

[Glider]

Can I ask if anyone knows what guns these are as I don't immediately recognise them

 

[syscom3]

B29's on Saipan are lined up and ready for a mission.

 

[Wurger]