Random Cool Photo Thread

[ZuZu]

Don't know what's going on here- liberated AAF Kriegies doing domething...

 

[Thomas Koehle]

invisible airplaneView attachment 113289

pretty advanced stealth techinque ...

 

[Erwin]

Don't know what's going on here- liberated AAF Kriegies doing domething...

Picture from the liberation of Stalag Luft III [https://b24.net/powLuft7Photos.htm https://b24.net/powStalag3.htm ] by the 14th Armored.

 

[Smithy]

Some of the boys of Kiwi Spitfire Sqn 485 in 1944 with the suggested new squadron motto. They did this after a senior British 2TAF officer made a comment that all 485 seemed to do on their spare time was "drink and fornicate"

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[ZuZu]

Picture from the liberation of Stalag Luft III [https://b24.net/powLuft7Photos.htm https://b24.net/powStalag3.htm ] by the 14th Armored.

Wow thanks!

 

[Smithy]

I've always loved this photo, pilots and observers from 22 Sqn on the 1st April 1918 when the RFC and RNAS were merged to create the RAF.

To fly in WWII was dangerous but to fly in WWI was just ridiculously more so. No parachutes, no enclosed cockpits, no self-sealing fuel tanks, no armour, no radio to ask for help or assistance, no extensive flight training. The danger that these men faced is almost unfathomable today.

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[FlakMagnet]

source

 

[Smithy]

Even better Flak...

A Kiwi Corsair in flight:

 

[FlakMagnet]

War Bonds poster by illustrator Dean Cornwell

 

[FlakMagnet]

Here's one of my favourite Dean Cornwell illustrations from the war commissioned by Coca Cola
"Have a Coke- Kia Ora" (original source)

 

[Smithy]

There were loads of US servicemen in Auckland during the war Flak. My Dad's family had two billeted with them during the war under the local family scheme (a program to billet Yanks with local families so they wouldn't feel so far from home and to promote friendship among the servicemen and the local populace). Tragically one was killed on Iwo Jima and the other experienced awful stuff on the Solomons.

My Dad had a big soft spot for the Yanks throughout the rest of his life due to it. They were lovely guys said Dad and used to pick up goodies from their base PX for my Dad's family including chocolate and smokes. My Dad loved Chesterfields because of them

The guy who got killed on Iwo taught my Dad swing dancing.

 

[Smithy]

This is a photo of one of my heroes of WWII, Cobber Kain (that's him in the submariner jumper under his RAF tunic talking with his CO.

I was extremely lucky to know and correspond with his sister Judy. Like him, Judy was a really special character.

Cobber was the first RAF ace of the war.

 

[Micawber]

Reverend William Shergold and Father Graham Hullett both of the 59 Club, London..

 

[Micawber]

 

[Micawber]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Is that you, Maverick?

 

[B-Man2]

Are they related or is this a TC look alike contest ?