Random Cool Photo Thread

[flyincowboy]

A waist gunner of a B-17 mans his .50-caliber machine gun. Gives you a great sense of the cramped conditions, and the tricky footing with cartridge casings all over the floor

 

[flyincowboy]

USMC aviators; Pusan, South Korea ,1952

 

[flyincowboy]

B24 Tubarao and it’s crew, 491st Bomb Group .

 

[flyincowboy]

BIIL and brother
JACK WILSON COMMERCY FRANCE44

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[flyincowboy]

b17 engine swap

 

[flyincowboy]

B17 crew B10 & flying boots

 

[flyincowboy]

jim the coolest and youngest guy.

 

[leper-colony]

 

[flyincowboy]

B-17 waist gunner high altitude

 

[flyincowboy]

B-24 hit by a Japanese AA Shell, both pilots survived

 

[flyincowboy]

US Marine Corsair firing it's rockets at a Japanese position on Okinawa

 

[flyincowboy]

tubarao B-24 of the 391st BG

 

[flyincowboy]

p61 black widow

 

[flyincowboy]

Kittyhawk preparing to take off in Tunisia

 

[flyincowboy]

Hawker Hurricane night fighter

 

[flyincowboy]

German He-111 crew on their way to bomb England

 

[flyincowboy]

pilot escaping his burning Hellcat uss lexington

 

[Smithy]

Some hard cases...

Boys from the 28th Maori Battalion waiting to move up to the front from Gambettola, Italy on 19 October 1944 - also some Italian sheila and kid photobombing the snap ;-)

 

[Smithy]

Just thought I'd add this here as it's a fantastic but sadly little known epithet to attach to the boys in the above photo...

The famous Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the commander of the German Afrika Korps said "Give me the Maori Battalion and I will conquer the world."