Picture of the day. (18 Viewers)

[vikingBerserker]

Every time I see pics of the Bunker Hill I am shocked it ever made it back.

 

[Njaco]

Well, since we are doing color Spits.....

An Advanced Servicing Unit dismantles Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX, EN459 'ZX-1', of the Polish Fighting Team, attached to No 145 Squadron, RAF in Tunisia. The aircraft was damaged on 6 April 1943 when, after shooting down a Messerschmitt Bf 109, it was attacked by another Bf 109 and hit in the engine. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Eugeniusz Horbaczewski, was able to glide in to Gabes for a forced landing.

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[syscom3]

Every time I see pics of the Bunker Hill I am shocked it ever made it back.

The worst damage was to the flight and hanger decks. The engineering spaces were completely functional throughout the ordeal, although there were numerous causalities in them from heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Flightpath]

USS Timbailer AVP-54 with two USS Timbailer PBM-3D Martin Mariners.

 

[fubar57]

Now that is a great shot.

Geo

 

[Njaco]

17 September 1944: An aerial view of a C-47 Dakota as it tows off a CG-4A Waco glider from a British airfield en route for Holland.

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[Airframes]

Nice shot, but it's been laterally reversed - the view is of the starboard side, not port! Note the pitot tube.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Good catch Terry!

 

[Lucky13]

Agree! Good catch old boy, have a Navy Rum or several!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Good eye for detail there sir!

 

[Lucky13]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Dam, that is just beautiful!

 

[vikingBerserker]

.. Wrong thread

 

[vikingBerserker]

Wrong thread duplicate

 

[syscom3]

USS Bunker Hill. The gruesome aftermath of the inferno. Identifying the dead crewman prior to burial at sea.

 

[fubar57]

I looked

Geo

 

[fubar57]

I looked.

Geo

 

[fubar57]

I looked again

Geo

 

[vikingBerserker]

Just amazing, thanks for posting that one.