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[syscom3]

Why we have Memorial Day. The hall of the missing. US WW2 Military Cemetery, Manila, The Philippines.
36286 names on the columns. This picture was for the MIA for the army and army air forces for the Asiatic and Pacific theaters. Name after name after name. The navy had their section too.
"Comrades In Arms Whose Earthly Resting Place Is Known Only To God".
I took this in 1998.

 

[syscom3]

In memorium to all of the fallen.

I took this at the March AFB museum.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Sobering

 

[syscom3]

On this day 75 years ago. may 25th 1945.

10,000th Grumman F6F Hellcat of the U.S. Navy makes the 10,000th carrier landing on USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), May 25, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Ki-21-II Otsu (Allied reporting name 'Sally') of the 3rd Independent hikotai at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, 25 May 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Field Marshal Montgomery lays a wreath and salutes at the Tomb of the French Unknown Warrior, 25 May 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Lancaster bomber aircraft under repair at a Repair & Salvage Unit of the RAF, 25 May 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Ive never seen this picture. A captured FW190 and A-26's.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi in April 1942 during the Indian Ocean Raid as seen from an aircraft that has just taken off from her deck. The aircraft on the flight deck preparing for takeoff are Aichi D3A Type 99 dive bombers. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Fifteen Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the carrier Ark Royal successfully immobilised the German Battleship Bismarck's rudders on 26 May 1941, leading to its sinking at around 10.40am the following day. No photo credit available.

 

[at6]

Ive never seen this picture. A captured FW190 and A-26's.

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I've seen pictures of this bird before. I think that there was even a decal sheet to model this one in 1/48th scale.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[rochie]

Typhoon attack

from the Imperial war museum.

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

Corsairs at Cherry Point, South Carolina 1946

 

[michaelmaltby]

Typhoon attack ... fearsome.

 

[syscom3]

US Navy helicopter landing on #1 16-inch gun turret, battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57), 26 May 1945.

 

[syscom3]

A P-47 Thunderbolt of the U.S. Army 12th Air Force may be seen flying low over the crumbled ruins of the Berghof, Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden, three weeks after cessation of hostilities, 26 May 1945.

 

[at6]

A P-47 Thunderbolt of the U.S. Army 12th Air Force may be seen flying low over the crumbled ruins of the Berghof, Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden, three weeks after cessation of hostilities, 26 May 1945.

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See what happens when you rent your home to crazy college kids on Spring Break?

 

[michaelmaltby]

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