Random Cool Photo Thread

[Dumpster D]

1Lt. Robert Amon examines the tail of his P-38G after being hit with FLAK.

Check out how all the rivets popped out, probably due to the amount of vibration and shaking, like how all the rivets pop out of my ride cymbal after I'm really raining on it hard.

Lucky it held together and didn't fly apart.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Any idea why the lad on the bike is armed with a Thommy gun?

Looks cool on Life magazine

 

[FlakMagnet]

Free French. Capt. Philippe Maurin, commander of GC 1 4 Navarre P-47D.
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“His A-2 is too baggy. He needs a jacket thats a size down from this”

 

[FlakMagnet]

Cold war USAF is peak USAF.
Extra points for style

 

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[flyincowboy]

refueling

 

[Micawber]

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I'm in the Fans Of The B-17 FB group where this image appeared recently. The comments regarding the image indicate it has been poorly colourised, according to Robert Stitt [Author of B-17 In Coastal Command Service] the scheme should be Dark Slate Grey and Extra Dark Sea Grey with Sky undersurfaces. Further comments include the following:

RAF Serial number FK209 'J' fitted with British designed Yagi homing aerials in the nose and under the wings and American search aerials on the rear fuselage.
Whilst with RAF 59 Squadron Coastal Command based at Chivenor, Devon, was shot down over the Bay of Biscay 120 miles off the French Coast on March 23, 1943, by a Junkers Ju 88 piloted by Oblt Hermann Horstman of 13/KG 40 squadron.
All 8 crew members were lost. They are all remembered at the Airforce Memorial at Runnymede, Surrey, England.
Flying Officer Richard John Weatherhead age 30.
(Captain) Royal Canadian Airforce
Panel 175, Runnymede.
Flying Officer Robert Albert Phillips age 31.
Royal Airforce Volunteer Reserve.
Panel 128, Runnymede.
Flying Officer Willard Christian Zapfe age 27
Royal Canadian Airforce.
Panel 175, Runnymede.
Pilot Officer George Cojocar age 22
Royal Canadian Airforce.
Panel 175, Runnymede.
W/O Class 2 William James Arnold age 20.
Royal Canadian Airforce.
Panel 179, Runnymede.
W/O Class 2 Clarence Lummis Copping age 25.
Panel 179, Runnymede.
W/O Class 2 Richard Glover Montgomery age not known.
Panel 180, Runnymede.
W/O Class 2 Frank Spino age 26.
Royal Canadian Airforce.
Panel 180, Runnymede.

 

[Micawber]

Not exactly cool but rather touching...

South London, c 1940. " The barks of this little dog trapped with his master under a bombed house was instrumental in saving him and his master. The Air Raid Patrol (ARP) rescue squad had a guide to their position under the debris. Rescued after 18hrs.

 

[Micawber]

Queenie, a dog who lost her home, waiting to be taken away after a V1 flying bomb attack in Kentish Town, London. June 1944

 

[flyincowboy]

Talking flying bombs Flak Rakete Hs 117, the first SAM tested 1943.

 

[FlakMagnet]

Unboxing a Brewster Buffalo Mk 1 for the RAF/RAAF in Singapore

 

[Enigma1938]

Unboxing a Brewster Buffalo Mk 1 for the RAF/RAAF in Singapore

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I just wish a package like this would lay underneath my Christmas tree one day...

 

[FlakMagnet]

I just wish a package like this would lay underneath my Christmas tree one day...

it'd be a massive Christmas tree..

 

[Dumpster D]

 

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Source

 

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[Flightengineer]

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Source

cool idea for poster

 

[Pa12]

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Do you know where that is?