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[syscom3]

Released British PoWs watch as Japanese PoWs are made to push their vehicle up a hill on the Changi Road, Singapore, 16 September 1945.

 

[SaparotRob]

Released British PoWs watch as Japanese PoWs are made to push their vehicle up a hill on the Changi Road, Singapore, 16 September 1945.

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Karma.

 

[yulzari]

Released British PoWs watch as Japanese PoWs are made to push their vehicle up a hill on the Changi Road, Singapore, 16 September 1945.

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I used to live on that road in the 1950s. My father dug up two Australians PoWs in the garden of the house we used on the coast road. Their Japanese guards had found them too noisy and bolshie so they took them down to the end of the garden and bayonetted them.Glad the Indian Private has his pig sticker mounted for ready use.

 

[michaelmaltby]

WW Photos

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

N2S Kaydet trainers at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas, August 1942

 

[XBe02Drvr]

N2S Kaydet trainers at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas, August 1942

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Future cropdusters.
One of our local colorful characters got his start in the warbird business by buying out his boss's stash of Stearman spares when the duster operation went to Pawnees and Ag Cats. Then he proceeded to build a purported replica of the plane Butch O'hare soloed in, complete in every detail, except for the 450 HP P&W 985 engine, and the custom brass plaque inscribed with O'hare's decorations and his training record and combat history. Even had the correct BuNo on the tail.
That plane sold for an unheard of sum of money for a Stearman at the time, enough to finance the acquisition of a PBJ (B25) carcass from a boneyard somewhere and its restoration into a replica of some famous Navy attack plane in WWII. The rest is history, and includes Venoms, Magisters, MiGs, and even an unauthorized SAAB J35, not to mention jail time.
Cheers,
Wes

 

[rochie]

just noticed todays date !

operation Market garden started today in 1944.

 

[syscom3]

On this day 85 years ago.

The German Junkers Rolls-Royce Kestral-powered Ju-87 V-1 Stuka prototype first flew on September 17, 1935. Later versions with the Jump engine became the mainstay light bomber of the Luftwaffe through much of the second world war.

 

[syscom3]

The Vultee V-11, prototype of the three-seat attack bomber that was briefly tested by the USAAC. This airframe was built in 1935 and was based upon the Model V-1A monoplane eight-seat commercial transport. Although this type of aircraft was not used by the USAAC, there were some 100 used by Brazil, China, Turkey and the Soviet Union who bought the Model V-11 with a 750 hp Wright engine and the very similar Model V-12 with 1050 hp engine. A later Model V-11G built in 1938 and two were tested as YA-19 attack bombers (38-549 and 38-555).

 

[syscom3]

Japanese Koryu Type D midget submarines in an assembly shed at the Mitsubishi shipyard, Nagasaki, Japan, 17 September 1945.

 

[SaparotRob]

The Vultee V-11, prototype of the three-seat attack bomber that was briefly tested by the USAAC. This airframe was built in 1935 and was based upon the Model V-1A monoplane eight-seat commercial transport. Although this type of aircraft was not used by the USAAC, there were some 100 used by Brazil, China, Turkey and the Soviet Union who bought the Model V-11 with a 750 hp Wright engine and the very similar Model V-12 with 1050 hp engine. A later Model V-11G built in 1938 and two were tested as YA-19 attack bombers (38-549 and 38-555).

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It makes me think of a flying school bus.

 

[michaelmaltby]

WW Photos

 

[Wurger]

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

On this day 85 years ago.

The German Junkers Rolls-Royce Kestral-powered Ju-87 V-1 Stuka prototype first flew on September 17, 1935. Later versions with the Jump engine became the mainstay light bomber of the Luftwaffe through much of the second world war.

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The Vultee V-11, prototype of the three-seat attack bomber that was briefly tested by the USAAC. This airframe was built in 1935 and was based upon the Model V-1A monoplane eight-seat commercial transport. Although this type of aircraft was not used by the USAAC, there were some 100 used by Brazil, China, Turkey and the Soviet Union who bought the Model V-11 with a 750 hp Wright engine and the very similar Model V-12 with 1050 hp engine. A later Model V-11G built in 1938 and two were tested as YA-19 attack bombers (38-549 and 38-555).

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Interesting how two aircraft built at the same time look so different, the Vultee much more modern (cleaner lines, retractable landing gear, braceless tail).

Oddly the Stuka was by far more successfull.

 

[syscom3]

A P61 and a XB-35.

 

[syscom3]

Navy personnel train with a N2S Kaydet air ambulance at NAS Corpus Christi, 1942

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Navy personnel train with a N2S Kaydet air ambulance at NAS Corpus Christi, 1942

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CAUTION
NOT TO BE FLOWN SOLO WITHOUT BALLAST IN LITTER COMPARTMENT
Consult Aircraft Flight Manual, Section Eight, Weight and Balance, for details.

 

[syscom3]

Sixteen liberated Prisoners of War arrive in Washington, D.C. on 18 September 1945. Fifteen were survivors of the heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) which was sunk by Japanese gunfire and torpedoes during the Battle of Sunda Strait, 1 March 1942; one sailor was captured on 6 May 1942 when Corregidor fell.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Interesting how two aircraft built at the same time look so different, the Vultee much more modern (cleaner lines, retractable landing gear, braceless tail).

Oddly the Stuka was by far more successfull.

The "far more successful" Stuka was very much evolved from this machine.
The Vultee didn't evolve much because its market was stolen by more attractive contemporaries.