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[syscom3]

B-17G 42-97249 "How was it? Well?" N8-P of the 398th BG, 600th BS

 

[hal bregg]

Awesome. Propaganda, or maby something else?.

 

[Glider]

But where is the bar and BBQ ...................... and the accommodation for the dancing girls ??

You need separate accommodation for the dancing girls?

 

[Snautzer01]

VULCAN 617 SQN FLOWN BY PRINCE CHARLES XL392

R.A.F: VULCAN 617 SQN FLOWN BY PRINCE CHARLES ORIGINAL DAVE THOMAS PHOTO 1974 | eBay

FLOWN BY PRINCE CHARLES. ORIGINAL DAVE THOMAS PHOTO. USED condition.

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[syscom3]

Brewster F2A-1 Buffalo of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3) At Naval Air Station, North Island, California, 9 September 1940.
The plane is painted in McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 2. Note gun camera mounted on the
starboard side of the fuselage, forward. Grumman F2F-1 fighters of Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2) are in the background.

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

A TBM Avenger piloted by First Lieutenant Girard Blais, USMCR, attached to VMTB-144 based aboard USS Salerno Bay
(CVE-110) comes home to make what is believed to be the last carrier landing during the occupation of the Japanese
Empire. This was off Formosa when planes from Salerno Bay furnished air support for Chinese troops occupying the
island. 4 December 4th 1945

 

[Snautzer01]

rochie showing his work

 

[hal bregg]

Burnt Polish 300 sqn. Wellington straight from the Bremen raid.

 

[syscom3]

Kreigsmarine aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin under construction at Deutsche Werke, Kiel, Germany, 14 September 1937.

 

[Wurger]

 

[at6]

Kreigsmarine aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin under construction at Deutsche Werke, Kiel, Germany, 14 September 1937.

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Considering what they planned to fly from it, it's just as well that it never got finished.

 

[hal bregg]

Graf Zeppelin is still with us ... some 55 kilometers north of the fashionable Polish seaside town of Władysławowo. Beach-goers don't know what's under the water just below the horizon ...

 

[SaparotRob]

The Russians wanted to see how to sink a carrier.

 

[special ed]

They filled it so full of loot that it sank.....Wait, that's Ukraine, the Orcs taking so much loot they crash... re deux

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[syscom3]

B-17G of the 351st BG hit by a 88mm FlaK shell September 27th 1944.

 

[SaparotRob]

Wow.

 

[N4521U]

and no ball turret.

 

[special ed]

Not anymore. Left it on the continent.