Picture of the day. (12 Viewers)

[syscom3]

I hope this becomes a regular thread. Post a single picture of anything to do with WW2, including the years prior and just after.

Here's the first one. USS Cowpens rolls heavily during Typhoon Cobra, December 17th, 1944.

 

[vikingBerserker]

That had to be one wild ride.

 

[Matt308]

Holy sheepdip!

 

[Airframes]

Sod that for a game of sailors!
No wonder I prefer aircraft - those floating things are bl**dy dangerous !!

 

[syscom3]

Anyone know what those vertical posts are for? I've never seen them before.

 

[Matt308]

how about snap in guide posts to thread a rope (look in pic) so personnel can traverse the deck while snapping in a safety ring? Sure would be easy to go over the side in that sea state. Awfully tall though.

 

[michaelmaltby]

The current USS Cowpens just tangled with the Chinese People's navy over Chinese new restricted zone:


USS Cowpens: Why China forced a confrontation at sea with US Navy - CSMonitor.com

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

And that picture above is why I don't like boats.

 

[Matt308]

Amen to that.

 

[Njaco]

P-51s of the 352nd Fighter Group escorting B-24Js of the 458th Bomb Group.

 

[Matt308]

Nice...

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

how about snap in guide posts to thread a rope (look in pic) so personnel can traverse the deck while snapping in a safety ring? Sure would be easy to go over the side in that sea state. Awfully tall though.

I think you got it Matt.

 

[Lucky13]

I hope this becomes a regular thread. Post a single picture of anything to do with WW2, including the years prior and just after.

Here's the first one. USS Cowpens rolls heavily during Typhoon Cobra, December 17th, 1944.View attachment 249820

No idea of which jeep carrier she is or where, but, f*ck me!

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Njaco]

lunatics.....

 

[Njaco]

Escorts and merchant ships at Hvalfjord before the sailing of Convoy PQ 17. Behind the destroyer ICARUS (1.03) is the Russian tanker AZERBAIJAN. The sea voyage to the north Russian ports of Murmansk and Archangel was the shortest route for sending Allied supplies to Russia. But it was also the most dangerous owing to the large concentration of German forces in northern Norway. The convoy PQ 17 was decimated by U-boats and the Luftwaffe after a communication from the Admiralty on 4 July 1942 ordered the escort to 'scatter'.

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[Shortround6]

What freakin' IDJIOT was taking the picture

 

[Njaco]

forward AA position tub.....

 

[Capt. Vick]

Wow!

 

[tyrodtom]

You'll notice there's several men in that photo, and nobody seems frightened.

In the days of sail those same men would have been high up in the rigging adjusting sails.