Picture of the day.

[michaelmaltby]

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[Snautzer01]

That boy handeling the barbette looks 15.

 

[syscom3]

A P51 engine under going maintenance.

 

[syscom3]

The first Royal Navy Supermarine Seafire fighters over Japan fly over Yokoshiba-Hikari, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, 17 July 1945.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Forward guns and superstructure of USS Iowa underway during the Marshall Islands Campaign 24 January 1944. Note USS Indiana in the background. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

This day in 1939, prototype R2052 (later known as the Bristol Beaufighter) conducted its maiden flight, a little more than 8 months after development had formally started. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

3,623 men perished during the catastrophic Allied sea bound attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe on 19 August 1942. It was a clear lesson on how not to do it – and it greatly affected the planning and operation of the later Normandy Landings some two years later. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Men of the Royal Scots pose for a photograph with a Japanese flag taken as a souvenir after clearing the Japanese from Payan, near Shwebo, January 1945. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Two U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver dive bombers of Bombing Squadron 83 (VB-83) fly against the backdrop of ships of Task Group 38.3 operating off Okinawa, 1945. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bomber targeting a Japanese airfield of Kawasaki Ki-48 bombers at Hollandia, New Guinea, 1942. No photo credit available.

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

WarHistory.com
The Royal Navy during the Dieppe Raid.

Disaster it was, but for those who made it back in one piece, soldier's like Colonel Whitaker, of the RHLIs, it was an education for what lay ahead after D-Day. He and his men were better soldiers for the baptism of disasters, called war,
Denis Whitaker - Wikipedia
His war histories of the period are lively, and observant. ****

 

[Wurger]

 

[Glider]

That boy handeling the barbette looks 15.

Sign a sign of the times. I took the practical test to join the RN as an Artificer Apprentice in 1972 when I was 15, joining soon after my 16th birthday in 1973.
Now looking back, that's a scary, make that a very scary thought.

 

[davparlr]

PBYs of VP-73 return to Reykjavik, Iceland after a patrol, 23 March 1942

I was impressed by the picture of Keflavik airport (Reykjavik). I had flown into Keflavik a couple of time, once on ILS (insturment landing system) approach, and once on a circling approach, both times at minimums. It seemed very barren at the time, like someone had placed a runway on a rock jutting out into the sea, which I think it really was. I do understand that Iceland is a very beautiful place, just not Keflavik. Of course P-3s (at the time) were stationed there most likely patrolling the GIUP (Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom) gap.

 

[syscom3]

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A Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bomber targeting a Japanese airfield of Kawasaki Ki-48 bombers at Hollandia, New Guinea, 1942. No photo credit available.

That would be 1944.

 

[syscom3]

A pair of B-24Es during acceptance trials near Ford's Willow Run plant, February 1943

 

[davparlr]

Martin JRM cargo transport seaplane named ''Hawaii Mars'' being inspected by men of the Naval Training School at the Glenn L. Martin plants in Baltimore, July 14, 1945

When I first saw the Spruce Goose in Long Beach I was not as impressed as most because I had already seen this and other seaplanes at the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola. All those planed were huge, even the twin engine ones.

 

[davparlr]

On this day 75 years ago, July 16 1945. A deck load of U.S. Army Air Force Republic P-47N Thunderbolt fighters on the flight deck of USS Casablanca (CVE-55), 16 July 1945. The planes were loaded at Naval Air Station Alameda, California (USA) and were bound for Guam.

Powerful aircraft with 2800 hp available up to 33k and a top speed of 467 mph at that altitude, and long legs.