Picture of the day.

[syscom3]

Ground crew prepares to load bombs on B-17 Flying Fortress in England, July 1943 Note the small "put-put" engine. Maybe providing electrical power for the bomb hoist?

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

Damaged B-17 42-97849 Liberty Belle 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron 8th Air Force 1945.
Looks like flak damage, from all the holes in the tail.

This B17 was delivered to Tulsa 15/3/44; Kearney 9/5/44; Grenier 26/5/44; Assigned 570BS/390BG [DI-O] Framlingham 27/5/44; force landed continent 14/2/45; 2KIA Brooks, Cullen, 1WIA Mercier; Salvaged 18/2/45. LIBERTY BELL.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

An SB2C that nosed over while landing on USS Shangri-La (CV-38), 13 March 1945. No photo credit available.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

No photo credit or description.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A pair of 73rd Fighter Squadron P-40Es on the flight deck of USS Saratoga (CV-3) while docked at Pearl Harbor, June 1942. No photo credit available.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

43rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Sqdn. Group: Orig. Photo/Telegram/Cover/Etc. | eBay

 

[Torch]

43rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Sqdn. Group: Orig. Photo/Telegram/Cover/Etc. | eBay

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Looks like a shot from the movie Fury....Not that it is just a resemblance..

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[N4521U]

You can eat that Schiezen????????
I drink De Beir!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

Foto, 6.Artillerie-Regiment 193, Kampf um die Insel Tytärsaari, Finnland, f | eBay

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

A snowy 100th Bomb Group B-17 at Thorpe Abbotts, December 1944

 

[Wurger]