Picture of the day.

[syscom3]

A Douglas Havoc II AH433 over Mines Field 1941. THis was to be delivered to the RAF. Mines field would eventually become LAX airport.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[Андрей]

PETROV VASILY STEPANOVICH He fought without both hands. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union!

Василий Степанович Петров. Дважды герой СССР без обеих рук!

 

[Андрей]

Vasiliy VATAMAN, he killed more than 8 Germans here such Panzerfaust.

Подвиг Василия Ватамана, который убил более 8 немцев фаустпатроном

 

[nuuumannn]

New Zealand Navy PB2B-1 Catalina

Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Catalina. No biggie, correcting for accuracy's sake.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

A-20 of the 89th Bombardment Squadron, 3rd BG during a low level attack on the Lae airfield. G4M1 from 705th Kokutai on the ground

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

Lockheed P-38 Lightning of the 475th Fighter group, equipped with two auxiliary fuel tanks. On tank holds 310 gallons and the other 165 gallons. Lingayen Airstrip, Luzon, Philippines, August 25, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

WOW!!

USS Wasp (CV-18) rolls in heavy sea as the ship steams into a typhoon south of Japan, 25 August 1945.

 

[syscom3]

British generals from Singapore and Hong Kong released from prison camp in Manchuria, 25 August 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Allied PoWs in Japan waving at U.S. Navy plane overhead, August 25, 1945.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The all-female pop group The Weather Girls rehearsing their top ten smash hit "Its Raining Men"

I thought it was mail order grooms...........................................................................................................I'll get my jacket.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Peter Gunn]

To go with syscom's shot:

B-29s of the 20th AF assembled on Baker runway, Saipan, Marianas Islands to load food and clothing to be dropped to PW Camps.

Source: National Archives by way of the 315th Bomb Group site 315th Bomb Wing (VH) and Northwest Field, Guam, WWII

Also here is a link to the 315th with images of the orders for the POW drops and aircraft assigned with commanders names and also a manifest of what was in the relief containers:
POW Supply Drops, 315th Bomb Wing

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Two U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldivers from Bombing Squadron 9 (VB-9), operating from the Essex-class fleet aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-16), fly over Task Force 58, enroute to Tokyo for their first raid on that city, 16 February 1945. Ships below include an Essex-class carrier, an Independence-class carrier, a New Orleans-class cruiser and a destroyer. View attachment 570015

Never capable of see if the rear guns of the SB2C were useful at all. Always thought they were too much close to the fin (a big one indeed) and with a limited firing angle.

Could it has been a better plane getting rid of the second man?

 

[syscom3]

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[syscom3]

Dutch girls waiting to place flowers at a monument commemorating Canadian soldiers who were killed in action in the liberation of the Netherlands, Moerstraaten, Netherlands, 26 August 1945.

 

[syscom3]

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) showing her damage received during a typhoon off Japan on 26 August 1945.