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dronescapesvideos · 4 months
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Brigadier General David “Tex” Hill on the wing of his P-51 Mustang 26th FS 51st FG, 1944
➤➤ VIDEO: https://youtu.be/oiI6ZPv1OWU
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histcryprincess · 24 days
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French girls wearing their German boyfriends uniforms during World War 2. The photo on the right was found on a German POW.
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B-17G Flying Fortress
One of the most well known bombers of all time, the B-17 Flying Fortress became famous for the long daylight bombing raids over Europe in WWII. While it lacked the range and bomb load of its contemporary B-24 Liberator, the B-17 became the more famous of the two due to the many tales of B-17s bringing their crews back home despite heavy damage. With up to thirteen machine guns, the B-17 seemed to be genuine flying “fortress in the sky.” However, bomber losses reached the unacceptable point in 1943 in the face of stiff German opposition, and the B-17s welcomed the introduction of long-range fighter escort before they could continue their war against the Reich.
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davidcashuk · 1 month
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lonestarflight · 10 days
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Vought OS2U Kingfisher taxiing after making a water landing near Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida.
Date: March 1943
United States Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation: link, link
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todaysdocument · 29 days
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Wacs At Teletype Machines At A Bomber Command Headquarters In Pine Tree, High Wycombe, Bucks, England. 
Record Group 342: Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and OrganizationsSeries: Photographs of Activities, Facilities and Personnel
Original caption: Wacs At Teletype Machines At A Bomber Command Headquarters In Pine Tree, High Wycombe, Bucks, England. The Wacs Are, Left To Right: Pfc. Rosalie S. Jones, Baltimore Md T/5 Eugenia M. Hall, Ridgeway, Penn.; Pvt. Virgie M. Deas, Columbia, Sc And Cpl. Dorothy M. Albers, Keystone, Iowa, supervisor 29 September 1943
Black and white photograph shows four women in military uniforms.  Three are sitting at teletype machines while one stands looks at the teletype tape.  There are several unused teletype machines and typewriters around them.  Behind the women is what looks like a telephone exchange panel.
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zombilenium · 26 days
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Vincent Miche! Photography
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tinylongwing · 16 days
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Fieldwork here on Rota is well underway, with about half of our mist-netting lanes and trails marked and prepped for next month's bird banding. But along the way, we find all kinds of incredible landscapes and hidden treasures.
Top left: A WWII Japanese artillery gun sunk into a manmade cave in a limestone wall. The old gun is being overtaken by the jungle and has ferns and moss growing all over the barrel.
Top right: An old wrecked boat inside the lagoon on Rota's northwestern shore, with brilliant blue sky above and turquoise water below.
Bottom left: Guam Coenogyne, a rare endangered orchid found only on Rota and Guam. This white flower with a red center emerges from a swirl of large bulbs with leaves that cling to the bark of a mossy tree.
Bottom right: An unbroken green glass bottle that originally held soy sauce, from sometime in the 1920s-40s when Rota was a Japanese colony.
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tybarious-ii · 2 months
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt Seated in Jeep with Hat over his Heart, Reviewing Troops with General George Patton, Casablanca.
Date: January 18, 1943
NARA: 6728535
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If you don't follow the 100th Bomb Group Foundation on Facebook then you are missing out on some great historical information associated with Masters of the Air. The one post of theirs that really hit close for me was this one:
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"Sammy, better known as Sam Hurry, played by Alfie Tempest. Sam Hurry grew up near Thorpe Abbotts and was a frequent visitor to the 351st Bomb Squadron. “On the base, I was unofficially adopted by the American servicemen who welcomed me,” he wrote. “They shared a variety of experiences and insights broader than the small village school could provide.” Sam was also allowed to assist with various jobs on base including washing down dispersal points after an aircraft left for a mission. “The hardstand was covered with 100-octane aviation fuel,” Sam recalled, “and we would be given a lighted rag to throw onto the concrete which immediately burst into flames, burning all the oil and grease off and leaving the area clean and ready for the aircraft to return.” The time after the Hundredth departed in 1945 was hard for Sam. “The silence was unnerving,” he wrote, “the atmosphere was ghostly.” It was the most difficult period of our young lives to adjust to an emptiness that was not of our making.” As an adult, Sam never forgot the veterans that he came to know during the war. “Thorpe Abbotts had etched itself into my heart,” he wrote, and when he found that local people had started an effort to restore the Control Tower as a 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, he joined them.
In 1979, the 100th Bomb Group Association elected Sam an honorary member and he attended five reunions in the US. Sam Hurry passed away in 2014, and his story lives on. (Photos courtesy of Apple TV+ and Malcolm Finnis)
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a-4skyhawk · 8 months
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Battleship Yamato
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dronescapesvideos · 3 months
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P-38J Lightning aircraft "Yippee" Nicknamed "The Forked-Tailed Devil". 1944
➤➤ VIDEO: https://youtu.be/WCKCmrE2bYg
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stone-cold-groove · 2 months
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Where performance really counts... count on dependable Champion spark plugs.
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lonestarbattleship · 2 months
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View of the forecastle of USS NEVADA (BB-36), showing bomb damage forward of No. 1 turret.
Photographed on January 15, 1942.
Digital Archives of Hawai'i: PPFUR-2-17-005
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Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes. February 1944.
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lonestarflight · 8 months
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"Consolidated B-24 Liberator, 15th Air Force, flies over smoke from bombs that struck at an enemy gun positions in the Sete area of Southern France."
Date: August 12, 1944.
NARA: 204897962
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