Picture of the day.

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

Ground personnel of the 451st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force attend to a crashed B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-7759) nicknamed "Little Butch". First handwritten caption on reverse: '"Somewhere in Italy" Little Butch had seen better days.' Second handwritten caption on reverse: '2700 Gallons of GAS, 10-500 Lb bombs Pilot, Lt Massare March 29-44.'

 

[at6]

WW2 GERMAN UNIFORM W/ GAS MASK ON DUMMY 1944 MARSEILLE ORIG. PRESS PHOTO 9" X 7" | eBay

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Ouch !!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Fifi the Impaler".

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com

 

[syscom3]

The Axis never had a chance. B17's under construction at the Boeing Renton plant in Washington. The three Axis powers may have talked a big game about total war back in the 30's but never understood or comprehended the industrial potential of the US.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Hs-126 Recon plane. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Pictured on December 25th, 1941 – the Siege of Leningrad.
The pictured man – Mikhail Balt – the head of Leningrad-city Trade Department.
He was responsible for sharing remaining food among starving city-residents. He introduced the norms of sharing bread – 125 g per day for a person. He is pictured with that piece of bread (125 g). Although he was responsible for city food storages and was Soviet top-manager at the moment, but personally consumed only the norm he had introduced for others (given the available storages in the besieged city). He died in some weeks, in January 1942, of exhaustion. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Stalingrad defenders celebrate the New Year in the ruins of the city. The inscription on the wall says: "We swear to destroy fascism in 1943!" No photo credit available.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Captured Fw 190s operated by the 85th Fighter Squadron, Sicily, August 1943
Source: usaac-official

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Sherman tanks move up past a crash-landed Spitfire, for an attack on Tilly-sur-Seulles, Normandy. 17 June 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Musée de la bataille de Tilly sur Seulles 1944 – Normandy Landings, Calvados
RCAF Spitfire, I believe.

 

[Crimea_River]

Musée de la bataille de Tilly sur Seulles 1944 – Normandy Landings, Calvados
RCAF Spitfire, I believe.

Correct. Spitfire IX VZ-S (MJ255) crash landed by F/O H.G. Garwood of 412 Squadron on June 11, 1944 after engine failure. The pic was taken Jun 17 with advancing Canadian tanks.

 

[Airframes]

I've often wondered if this was the same Garwood who was ramp manager at Newcastle airport back in the 1950s and up to the mid '60s.
I know he was ex-RCAF, and stayed in England after the war - a really nice chap who allowed us youngsters to roam across the ramp to take pictures.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com
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[syscom3]

398th Bomb Group 601st Bomb Squadron Boeing B-17G-105-BO 43-39227 code 3O-S, 1945

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Women Civil Service workers maintain the engine on a PBY at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
Source: usaac-official

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Troops of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment move through the fog to a new position, Ardennes, Belgium, December 20, 1944.
Colour by Jake Colourised PIECE of JAKE
U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo

 

[SaparotRob]

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Troops of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment move through the fog to a new position, Ardennes, Belgium, December 20, 1944.
Colour by Jake Colourised PIECE of JAKE
U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo

I can picture my father in a scene just like this. The time, the place is right.

 

[at6]

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Troops of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment move through the fog to a new position, Ardennes, Belgium, December 20, 1944.
Colour by Jake Colourised PIECE of JAKE
U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo

Remember. If you're not going to eat it, don't shoot it. I wonder, do Germans taste like chicken?