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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.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.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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Future cropdusters.
It makes me think of a flying school bus.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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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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CAUTIONNavy personnel train with a N2S Kaydet air ambulance at NAS Corpus Christi, 1942
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The "far more successful" Stuka was very much evolved from this machine.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.