Random Cool Photo Thread

[Dany McDonald]

July 1942. "Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New York. Trainees aboard the training ship New York working in the boiler room."

Poor guys, little did they know then how the german u-boat wolf packs are going to make their lives very miserable.

Again a superb document.

 

[Kermit3D]

Circa 1940, somewhere on the high seas. "Boxing match in progress on the deck of New Zealand troopship Dominion Monarch, carrying 2nd Echelon 4th Reinforcements to the United Kingdom."

 

[Kermit3D]

March 1945. Ramitelli, Italy. 332nd Army Air Forces Fighter Group. "Tuskegee airman Edward C. Gleed of Lawrence, Kansas, Class 42-K, with two crewmen adjusting an external 75 gallon drop tank on the wing of the P-51D Creamer's Dream."

 

[Kermit3D]

Model airplanes decorate the ceiling of the train concourses at Union Station in Chicago, Illinois. Jack Delano, 1943

 

[Kermit3D]

Sturmtiger in France.

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[FlakMagnet]

Aussie Diggers in and on a jeep in New Guinea (1943) (from LIFE magazine archives)

Interesting mix of small arms comprising of an M1 Garand rifle, M1921/28 Thompson SMG held by a soldier in the back, and Enfield SMLE rifle on the soldier sitting on the bonnet/hood.

 

[Micawber]

Not a photo but still worthy of a look...

 

[Pa12]

Not a photo but still worthy of a look...

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If only they knew they were going to lose the floats and be transformed into one of the greatest fighters ever.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

It was belong to Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller

 

[Enigma1938]

It was belong to Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller
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Some years ago I stumbled over a website where they reproduced and sold such tailfins, especially with lots of victory marks on it like Hartmann's or Marseille's for example for utopian prices.

 

[FlakMagnet]

Japanese auxiliary escort carrier IJN Shimane Maru under Fleet Air Arm attack on 24 July 1945

 

[FlakMagnet]

Hawker Hurricane IIC of No. 42 Squadron RAF attacking a Japanese ground position in Burma in May 1944. Ryley R (Fg Off), No. 42 Squadron RAF

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Enigma1938]

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I just love the silhouette of the 190, such a great looking bird

 

[Micawber]

Not a photo but a remarkable painting

 

[FlakMagnet]

Not the sort of crossover you see often- a WW2 era M-36 Jackson tank destroyer and a T-55 during the Balkans conflict

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]