Picture of the day.

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

That craft in the foreground looks like a Me 410B-6/R2.

Yes. you can see the mechanism for the side guns.

 

[syscom3]

Daisy Mae of the 11th Bomb Group after crash-landing on Midway, 1943

 

[syscom3]

The first of the British occupation troops arrived in Berlin, Germany.

Berlin: Watched by several thousand Berliners, the British occupation force arrived in the former capital of the Third Reich this afternoon. Women and children clambered over heaps of rubble to gain a better view as the 11th Hussars of the 7th Armoured Division appeared after a 14-hour, 120-mile journey from the British occupation zone. They had been held up for three hours at Magdeburg waiting for the Russians to give them permission to enter their zone.

They passed lines of Russian infantry riding in horse-drawn carts. Beside the gleaming fresh paintwork of the Hussars' tanks, the Russians looked shabby and tattered. Berlin seems populated almost entirely by women and thousands of them are employed by the occupation powers clearing the rubble, brick by brick. At first they worked 13 hours a day; that has now been reduced to seven. There are long food queues, fuel is scarce and most buildings lack glass.

Photo credit - Imperial War Mueum.

 

[syscom3]

Six U.S. Navy Consolidated PB2Y-5 Coronado flying boats of patrol bomber squadron VPB-4 in flight in July 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Royal Australian Air Force P-51 Mustangs in flight over Townsville, Queensland, 4 July 1945.

 

[syscom3]

PBJ-1 Mitchell bombers of Marine Squadron VMB-433 depart Rabaul, New Britain, after a raid, 4 July 1945. At this point in the war, Rabaul was isolated and had no military value. It just wasnt worth attacking.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Me410 agreed but what about the b6/r2?

Night fighter.

 

[Snautzer01]

Night fighter.

How do you come to that conclusion? That the wreck is that?

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

How do you come to that conclusion? That the wreck is that?

It is just my educated guess, I may or may not be wrong.

 

[Snautzer01]

It is just my educated guess, I may or may not be wrong.

Well what is your reasoning then? As it us an educated guess.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Well what is your reasoning then? As it us an educated guess.

Because that model had the side remote gun pods.

 

[Snautzer01]

I see. More versions had the side barbettes.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I have not. So I stand corrected.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[michaelmaltby]

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Luftwaffe survival gear

 

[syscom3]

A B29 takes off with JATO assistance.

 

[syscom3]

F4U Corsair, code FF57 of VMF-351, after hitting the barricade, escort carrier USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109), July 5, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

The Fairey Spearfish. Like a number of other late-war designs, it arrived too late to be considered for production; but became an intermediate step towards the postwar Fairey Gannet.