SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
That's a really nice poster.
Picture of the day. (30 Viewers)
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A postcard, courtesy Tom Knox, Alamo Military Collectables, St Louis, Mo.
Zippythehog
Staff Sergeant
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I wonder how the guy in the engine nacelle keeps his uniform so clean? Is he winding the mainspring?
Elvis
1st Sergeant
Probably but there was a "Deluxe Compartment" towards the tail if I'm not mistaken, that's where I'd like to be
It was the '30's. The grime was cleaner in those days.
Good shots!
I wonder where this detailed information comes from... 75 mm shell explode in the cockpit? - it would rather cause a defragmentation of the entire plane.
Maybe a 20mm bullet from a Zero cannon, or another Hien?
But I could be wrong of course...
Zippythehog
Staff Sergeant
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Flak only has to get close when the plane is traveling at 200kts straight at it.
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
27th January 1045!! Had they had B-24s then, maybe the English would have won the "Battle of Hastings" in 1066!!National Archives NextGen Catalog
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MiTasol
Major
27th January 1045!! Had they had B-24s then, maybe the English would have won the "Battle of Hastings" in 1066!!
Must have had someone from the Australian Nat Archives doing the cataloguing that day.
According to them 73 Wirraway files were created before the NA33 was even designed - and quite a few are dated as created in 1800 - even when the description includes the earliest date the file could have been created.
Similar errors with Beaufort, Boston, Hudson and Kittyhawk files.
Worse still they have known of these errors for over five years but their motto is She'll be rite mate coz neer enuf is good enuf.
Elvis
1st Sergeant
1 May 1965: Lockheed YF-12A 60-6936 established five Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Records for Speed: 3,351.507 kilometers per hour (2,070.102 m.p.h.) over a 15/25 Kilometer Straight Course; 2,644.22 kilometers per hour (1,643.04 miles per hour) over a 500 Kilometer Closed Circuit; and 2,718.01 kilometers per hour (1,688.89 miles per hour) over a 1,000 Kilometer Closed Circuit. On the same day, 6936 set an FAI World Record for Altitude in Horizontal Flight of 24,463 meters (80,259 feet).
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
A SB2C-4E Helldiver crumples in flames during a crash landing aboard the
aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CV-38)
aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CV-38)
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
Spare Parts of the 50th Fighter Group runs up its engine at Leesburg Army Airfield, Florida.
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
F4U-1A fighters of Navy Squadron VF-17 transiting the Panama Canal on the flight deck of an Escort Carrier, circa Aug 1943. Note the unusual National
Insignia on the lower surfaces of the folded wings.
Insignia on the lower surfaces of the folded wings.
MiTasol
Major
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
I don't see an upper torso or head.
Good shots!
MIflyer
Major
US troops, but those are German machine guns, MG-34 I think, and that radio does not look like a US one, either.
Warspite63
Staff Sergeant
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Interesting .... I was gonna suggest post-war French troops in Indo-China, but the terrain looks very Western European.......
