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[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I see. More versions had the side barbettes.

But I could still be correct.

 

[Crimea_River]

The Fairey Spearfish. Like a number of other late-war designs, it arrived too late to be considered for production; but became an intermediate step towards the postwar Fairey Gannet.

Wow. Something by Fairey that's actually not bad looking.

 

[syscom3]

P-38 nose wheel collapse on landing. This was a 475th FG (5th AF) Lightning.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Glider]

Wow. Something by Fairey that's actually not bad looking.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, in this case, not mine. I can recommend a good optician if you wish.

 

[Crimea_River]

And I could recommend a good dictionary. "Beauty" and "not bad looking" are not synonymous.

 

[Glider]

That I will give you. I was merely concerned about your wellbeing.

 

[Crimea_River]

I'm touched, thank-you.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com

 

[syscom3]

Paul Goldman, Holocaust survivor, Haifa, mandate of Palestine (later Israel), 6 July 1945.

So young to be slinging a rifle. But after knowing that the Nazi's had done, you had to do what you had to do.

 

[Torch]

Paul Goldman, Holocaust survivor, Haifa, mandate of Palestine (later Israel), 6 July 1945.

So young to be slinging a rifle. But after knowing that the Nazi's had done, you had to do what you had to do.

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Looks like a toy rifle..

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

USS Iowa inside floating drydock ABSD-2, Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 28 December 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

P-40, Guadalcanal. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A Martin B-26 Marauder of 14 Sqn RAF, based at Fayid in Egypt during WW 2. This aircraft was lost on the 3rd January 1943, whilst engaged in a torpedo attack off Aghios Giorgios Island. Not a type of operation that the type is well known for carrying out. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Members of 12th Parachute Battalion, 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division, enjoy a cup of tea after fighting their way back to their own lines after three days behind enemy lines, 10 June 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com

 

[Snautzer01]

Paul Goldman, Holocaust survivor, Haifa, mandate of Palestine (later Israel), 6 July 1945.

So young to be slinging a rifle. But after knowing that the Nazi's had done, you had to do what you had to do.

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Not a rifle. A toy .

 

[syscom3]

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P-40, Guadalcanal. No photo credit available.

Looks like its gotten stuck.

 

[syscom3]

Not a rifle. A toy .

Its a .22