Random Cool Photo Thread

[flyincowboy]

Vought Corsair of the French Navy stationed in Korea

 

[flyincowboy]

Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engines are prepared for shipment at the Ford Aircraft Engine Plant in Dearborn, Michigan - 1942

 

[flyincowboy]

TAIL GUNNER WEARING ANJ4 ?

 

[flyincowboy]

WWII Bomber Pilot Brigadier General James Stewart

 

[flyincowboy]

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN looking at droppable belly tank

 

[Micawber]

Direct from the WW2 Life On The Home Front FB group which primarily concerns the UK is this photo and description which I personally found fascinating…

Women marking the pattern of uniforms onto material with chalk in preparation for the cutting stage of the process. Nine hundred miles of khaki serge produces 5,000,000 battle suits and 6,000,000 pairs of trousers.

 

[Pa12]

Direct from the WW2 Life On The Home Front FB group which primarily concerns the UK is this photo and description which I personally found fascinating…

Women marking the pattern of uniforms onto material with chalk in preparation for the cutting stage of the process. Nine hundred miles of khaki serge produces 5,000,000 battle suits and 6,000,000 pairs of trousers.

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Wow!

 

[B-Man2]

Direct from the WW2 Life On The Home Front FB group which primarily concerns the UK is this photo and description which I personally found fascinating…

Women marking the pattern of uniforms onto material with chalk in preparation for the cutting stage of the process. Nine hundred miles of khaki serge produces 5,000,000 battle suits and 6,000,000 pairs of trousers.

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Looks like they’re using every square inch of material out of that batch

 

[Micawber]

Looks like they’re using every square inch of material out of that batch

Indeed, sign of the times. A book I read recently (The War & Uncle Walter) was based on the diaries of a civil servant during the war. A big part of his duties was to travel around the country, usually by train, visiting various factories and suppliers in order to inspect materials and usage.

 

[Pilot]

Vought Corsair of the French Navy stationed in Korea


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Thanks for sharing, are you sure its Korea?
According to my records no ( French ) „Aeronavale or Royale“ aircrafts in Korea.. but I might be wrong.
The Airport looks more like Tourane ( Da Nang Indochina / Vietnam ) than Kimpo..
Again, thanks for sharing, nice photo… happy to learn!

 

[Pilot]

Tourane / Da Nang Air base with French B-26 Marauders … all borrowed from Uncle Sam..
See the mountain ridges in the back.. same as on your photo…

 

[Erwin]

 

[Lorenzo_l]

Tourane / Da Nang Air base with French B-26 Marauders … all borrowed from Uncle Sam..
See the mountain ridges in the back.. same as on your photo…
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Those are Douglas A-26 Invaders, re-designated B-26 between 1948 and 1965, after the original Martin B-26 Marauder had been withdrawn from service. The Invader's re-designation often leads to Invaders and Marauders being mixed up.

 

[Pilot]

Those are Douglas A-26 Invaders, re-designated B-26 between 1948 and 1965, after the original Martin B-26 Marauder had been withdrawn from service. The Invader's re-designation often leads to Invaders and Marauders being mixed up.

Thanks a lot.. learning never ends.. thanks!

 

[Smithy]

88 years ago..
On the afternoon of 5th March 1936 the Spitfire prototype had her maiden flight.

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Little known thing. K5054 was almost certainly mostly a snot yellow green for the maiden flight. Most of the panel being finished in an anti-corrosive chromate primer.

 

[flyincowboy]

Thanks for sharing, are you sure its Korea?
According to my records no ( French ) „Aeronavale or Royale“ aircrafts in Korea.. but I might be wrong.
The Airport looks more like Tourane ( Da Nang Indochina / Vietnam ) than Kimpo..
Again, thanks for sharing, nice photo… happy to learn!

To BRICE Not 100 %sure been told it was in korea.. maybe just stationed in DA NANG for maintenance before another flight....

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Micawber]

Somewhere over England, March 1940…

 

[leper-colony]

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) pilot Lieutenant C J Lavender of Enfield, stands beside his Fleet Air Arm Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft on the flight deck of the Royal Navy Illustrious-class aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable currently in action with the British Pacific Fleet off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia during World War II on 18th January 1945.

 

[Pa12]

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Pretty cool. Do you know who and where?