Random Cool Photo Thread

[Shanghai-Mayne]

This was an unknown soldier from the first ww they recently identified.

I remember they were killed on open ground, not even close to German position.

 

[Pa12]

I remember they were killed on open ground, not even close to German position.

Brutal

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

It’s a pic from a Japanese comic book about battle ship Yamato. It’s about the moment when a USN bomb was hitting No.2 fire control room . Seconds later, every body

in that room get killed.

 

[Dumpster D]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

It’s a captured Japanese avation machine gun.

 

[Dumpster D]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Erwin]

Airborne paratrooper normandy june 6th 1944

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/101st-airborne-pir-photo-questions.65111/

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

The second Netherlander (W-SS) awarded KC , for destroy 12 Soviet tanks at Naval.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Feb 1945, crews killed on CV-3 , due to Japanese kamakazi attack

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Pic taken at Nov 1944, among five Japanese pilots, only one survive the war. (First from right)

 

[FlakMagnet]

Aircraft carrier, HMS "Indomitable", with pilots standing and sitting with Seafire MB195, '6-S' of 899 NAS FAA, taken in 1943 not long after carrier been refitted in early that year.

 

[FlakMagnet]

Caption: US Marines prepare to bury Japanese General Yoshitsugu Saitō, after his body was found in a cave on Saipan - July 13, 1944

Yoshitsugu Saitō commanded Japanese forces during the Battle of Saipan, he committed seppuku on July 10, 1944.

The orders for his funeral with military honors came from USMC General Holland "Howlin' Mad" Smith.

Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections
COLL/3948

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Gen. Saito was a carrier cavalry officer, he was Co. Of 43rd Div. Before US launched attack against Saipan.

 

[FlakMagnet]

Source

 

[B-Man2]

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Source

Never saw anything like this before .
Whats his purpose for being in that pod ?
Edit;
I think I just realized that photo was a test flight for the aircraft that glided back to the ground .
The Northrop M2-F2:

 

[Monsoon]

Never saw anything like this before .
Whats his purpose for being in that pod ?
Edit;
I think I just realized that photo was a test flight for the aircraft that glided back to the ground .
The Northrop M2-F2:

View attachment 154065

Steve Austin flew one of those.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Mr Yang , 1943 he volunteered went to Burma , fought under Gen.Stillwell’s command, 1945 he went back to China trained as army paratrooper , Fought with Japs and later Komis . After war break out at Korea, he managed escape to American controlled territory , joined one of those CIA secret unit.

 

[FlakMagnet]