Picture of the day.

[syscom3]

B-17G-30-BO Flying Fortress Bomber 42 31801 of 92nd Bomb Group

 

[syscom3]

A U.S. Marine Curtiss SBC-3 Helldiver in the late 1930s. The Model 77 XSBC-2 prototype first flew on 9 December 1935.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A prototype C-69 Constellation in flight, 1945
Source: usaac-official

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

45th Fighter Squadron P-51s in flight near Iwo Jima, 1945
Source: usaac-official

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

IJN Akagi

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A P-61 takes off from an airfield in the Philippines, 1945. No photo credit available.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

Aufnahme eines Angehörigen des Heeres in Wintertarnbekleidung mit MP 40, Maße | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

B331 | eBay

Although the German can spoil the fun by being...... well ....Germans

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Although some Germans do know how to party

Foto WK 2 Afrika Korps Luftwaffe / Fallschirmjäger ca 23,5 x 16,3 cm | eBay

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Aufnahme eines Angehörigen des Heeres in Wintertarnbekleidung mit MP 40, Maße | eBay

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Almost looks like Eric.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com
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[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

B-17G Flying Fortress named Marishka of the 301st Bomb Group 32nd Bomb Squadron (15th AF in Italy). This must be after a mission. The meat wagon has pulled up to treat a wounded airmen.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Always liked the term "Meat Wagon". First heard it when I was a kid watching Saturday Night Live. They had a fake commercial about a toy slot car set and when one of the cars crashed they had an ambulance come out to take the driver to the hospital...only they called it the meat wagon. Funny. You had to be there I guess...

 

[special ed]

When I was a kid, we didn't have Saturday Night Live. We didn"t even have TV.

 

[Airframes]

That's nothin' - when I were lad, we lived in hole in't middle of road - sorry, couldn't resist that "Pythonism" !!

 

[Capt. Vick]

Lived in a hole did you? Posh git! We lived in a lake, and woke up at 3:00 am to my father beating the 15 of us...

 

[Airframes]

...... if you were lucky !!

 

[Capt. Vick]

Love that bit. Actually just saw it recently for the first time.