Picture of the day. (27 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

Vought O2U-2 VS-14M USS Saratoga WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

A similar view as aircraft 5 is spotted on the flight deck INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Swordfish English Channel 1939 HIST.

 

[syscom3]

A Piper L-4 loaded into the back of a GMC CCKW, 12 February 1944

 

[syscom3]

A crashed PB4Y-1 of VB-106 on New Georgia, 10 February 1944

 

[MiTasol]

From Slideshow | NASM.2010.0016. Thank you Baball for the link to the site. It promises to be interesting.

 

[Viking1066]

VL Tuisku II 1943 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

SBD-3 Dauntless of Escort-Scouting Squadron (VGS) 29 on the forward part of the flight deck of the auxiliary aircraft carrier USS Santee (ACV 29) 1942 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

SBD in use by a training command INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Photo taken on October 1, 1939 - the brand new orange triangle markings were being shown to the troops AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Ordnancemen prepare to load bombs onto a PBY-5A Catalina at NAS Adak, Alaska, in 1943 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Northrop BT-1 VB-6 USS Enterprise (Cv-6) September 1940 AIRH

 

[GTX]

A Piper L-4 loaded into the back of a GMC CCKW, 12 February 1944

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Diorama idea

 

[SaparotRob]

Ordnancemen prepare to load bombs onto a PBY-5A Catalina at NAS Adak, Alaska, in 1943 FACB
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Those guys just don't seem to get enough recognition for being where it just totally sucked. Imagine going into the water for a PBY, for whatever reason, on less pleasant day? A different kind of battle.

 

[CATCH 22]

Those guys just don't seem to get enough recognition for being where it just totally sucked. Imagine going into the water for a PBY, for whatever reason, on less pleasant day? A different kind of battle.

Like this one e.g.:

Source:Documentary: The War Boats - A Brief History Of Flying Military Boats
To my knowledge the original photo is in b&w and this should be a modern colorized copy (AI? Probably....).

 

[MiTasol]

I gave it winner because it shows that several of the poor blighters are wearing obviously patched waterproofs.

 

[Viking1066]

Hardened British sailors would often scrape away snow and ice with their bare hands. Crew are pictured on board the cruiser HMS Sheffield in December 1941 at a Russian base ahead of deployment AIRD

 

[Viking1066]

Chipping away AIRD

 

[special ed]

Reminds me of my Jr. High Phys Ed coach: "You don't know cold unless you have been on the deck of a destroyer in the north Atlantic in the winter."

 

[Lucky13]

It's not cold, It's....fresh!