Random Cool Photo Thread

[FlakMagnet]

Aircraft and support crews of the 498th FIS, 78th Group, Geiger Field,Spokane, Washington, 1963.

 

[FlakMagnet]

Peak RAF
RAF Laarbruch 1989

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[FlakMagnet]

Lt Lothar Zogg USAF, Dr Strangelove
(RIP James Earl Jones)

 

[Smithy]

A couple of Kiwis with a bunch of captured Fallschirmjäger...

 

[Smithy]

There's a fixation about the Waffen-SS when it comes to talking about elite German troops during WWII. In truth German Fallschirmjäger were arguably the best quality German troops of the war. Great photo of one with an MG42 on the Eastern Front...

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Enigma1938]

There's a fixation about the Waffen-SS when it comes to talking about elite German troops during WWII. In truth German Fallschirmjäger were arguably the best quality German troops of the war. Great photo of one with an MG42 on the Eastern Front...

Wow, this 42er has the pretty rare 1st type cocking handle, almost impossible to find nowadays.

 

[Smithy]

Wow, this 42er has the pretty rare 1st type cocking handle, almost impossible to find nowadays.

5 figure price tag if you've got one stashed away in the garage or garden shed.

 

[Smithy]

Bunch of GIs with a 30 cal, Chongchon River, November 1950 during the Korean War...

 

[LV426]

Hi , not a photo but a cool footage the construction process of the B17 I found on FB ( groupe : B-17 Cockpit Project ) . I advise to read the video at 0.75 speed to stay close to the reality. This videao may have been posted earlier , I don't know . Anyway , enjoy ! It's really interseting !

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=368409449660922

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[Micawber]

Halibag…

 

[Pilot]

Wow, this 42er has the pretty rare 1st type cocking handle, almost impossible to find nowadays.

Talk to the right people ( involved in the Bosnia/Serbia conflicts) bring enough €€€€ and you have several ( of course WWII legit originals )…
… and dont ask for discount …

 

[Smithy]

Kiwi gunner about to let rip with a Twin-Bren for a demonstration in Syria in '42...

 

[FlakMagnet]

Kiwi gunner about to let rip with a Twin-Bren for a demonstration in Syria in '42...

I’ve never seen a drum mag on a Bren before.

 

[Smithy]

I’ve never seen a drum mag on a Bren before.

It's the 100 round AA magazine Flak.

 

[Smithy]

I fucking love this image, it's one of my favourites. Anyone you talk to who was an infantryman or Marine in Vietnam will tell you the safest place to be when contact was made was behind the Pig.

Pig gunner near Bien Hoa in '69. He's not short of ammo either

 

[FlakMagnet]

US Army Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) Members Manuel Moya & Reed Cundiff of the 173rd Airborne during Operation Junction City in the Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam - February 1967

LIFE Magazine Archives - Co Rentmeester Photographer WWP-PD

 

[Smithy]

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US Army Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) Members Manuel Moya & Reed Cundiff of the 173rd Airborne during Operation Junction City in the Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam - February 1967

LIFE Magazine Archives - Co Rentmeester Photographer WWP-PD

Terrific photo. Those LRRP guys really worked for their pay.

You gotta love the Tiger Stripe too

 

[Jennison]

Bunch of GIs with a 30 cal, Chongchon River, November 1950 during the Korean War...

A war that changed what a "bunch of GIs" looked like. Great photo.