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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.That boy handeling the barbette looks 15.
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.PBYs of VP-73 return to Reykjavik, Iceland after a patrol, 23 March 1942
That would be 1944.View attachment 588510
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.
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.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
Powerful aircraft with 2800 hp available up to 33k and a top speed of 467 mph at that altitude, and long legs.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.