Random Cool Photo Thread

[flyincowboy]

Paratrooper ready for D day

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Should be a paratrooper attending operation versity.

 

[flyincowboy]

Dodge trucks wd15 crossing ponton bridge.

 

[flyincowboy]

Luftwaffe Pilot Hans Meyer (5 victories) reunited with an old friend.

 

[flyincowboy]

RAF de Havilland Mosquito aircraft over the Suez CanaL

 

[flyincowboy]

B-25 engine maintenance

 

[flyincowboy]

A German Heinkel He 177 heavy bomber of Kampfgeschwader 40 at Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, France, January 1944.

 

[flyincowboy]

A Junkers Ju-188 captured by the British and painted with RAF markings

 

[flyincowboy]

Bf109 E3

 

[flyincowboy]

French MS.406 fighters assigned to the Polish Montpellier Group in France, Mar 1940

 

[flyincowboy]

cluster evacuation

 

[Enigma1938]

cluster evacuation
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I dunno why but that hurts my eyes somehow

 

[ZuZu]

Captured NorthKorean LMGView attachment 165075

It's a great psyops- didn't really work though- still no long range strikes...

 

[Skyranger]

Bf109 E3

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When you see the narrowness of the landing gear you understand better why the 109s were more destroyed on landing or takeoff than in aerial combat...

 

[Smithy]

British soldier near Maurepas, December 1916...

 

[Smithy]

The office of a Se5a, 1918...

 

[FlakMagnet]

A USAAF A-20 Havoc aircraft conducted a low-level strike on a Japanese airfield in Lae, New Guinea

 

[FlakMagnet]

cluster evacuation
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AI?

 

[Emchisti]

Captain F J Walker RN, undertaking 'Operation Plaster' from the bridge of his Black Swan Class Sloop, HMS Starling, in the North Atlantic. Walker bought two leather patchwork jerkins from St. John's Newfoundland, during a leave stay. Pictures courtesy of the Western Approaches museum. I'd chuffing love a repro of this thing.

 

[Smithy]

This one reminded me of Ties' granddad's helmet, British soldier holding his damaged helmet near Hamel, Somme, December 1916...