Picture of the day.

[michaelmaltby]

can't say ....
USS Robin – The Victorious U.S. Carrier that Didn't Exist | Armchair General Magazine - We Put YOU in Command!

 

[SaparotRob]

I'm sure the Admiral would know.

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[syscom3]

The ground crew loading 500 lb bombs on a B-17E Flying Fortress in Australia 1942.

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Arresting wires are disengaged from an SB2U Vindicator following a landing aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-44. ww2dbase

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Андрей]

These photos were taken by a war photographer Evgeny Khaldei. He met the war in Murmansk and finished it in Berlin. He took part in liberation of Sevastopol, storm of Novorossiysk, Kerch, liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary. He took pictures of defeat of the Japanese in the Far East, the conference of heads of the Allied Powers in Potsdam, raising the flag over the Reichstag, the signing of the surrender act of Germany. At the Nuremberg Trials, some of the physical evidence was photographs of Eugene Khaldei. You saw many of the photos, but did not know the author.
Yevgeny Khaldei was born in Yuzovka, now Donetsk.

 

[syscom3]

WASP pilot Dorothy Olsen with a P-38. 1943

 

[SaparotRob]

These photos were taken by a war photographer Evgeny Khaldei. He met the war in Murmansk and finished it in Berlin. He took part in liberation of Sevastopol, storm of Novorossiysk, Kerch, liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary. He took pictures of defeat of the Japanese in the Far East, the conference of heads of the Allied Powers in Potsdam, raising the flag over the Reichstag, the signing of the surrender act of Germany. At the Nuremberg Trials, some of the physical evidence was photographs of Eugene Khaldei. You saw many of the photos, but did not know the author.
Yevgeny Khaldei was born in Yuzovka, now Donetsk.

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Can you translate into English what is written on the side of the airplane?

 

[N4521U]

Says
F'n Germans go to hell!

 

[SaparotRob]

Not quite the flowery rhetoric I was expecting.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Actually, it says "For Stalin!"

 

[Snautzer01]

Can you translate into English what is written on the side of the airplane?

Hold my beer.

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

No. 151 Wing Royal Air Force Operations in Russia, September-November 1941 A mechanic attaches the cable of a trolley-accumulator to a Hawker Hurricane Mark IIB of No. 81 Squadron RAF on the waterlogged airfield at Vaenga, as a section of three Hurricanes flies overhead.
https://www.pinterest.ca/dimitrivrettos/

 

[Wurger]

 

[SaparotRob]