Random Cool Photo Thread

[flyincowboy]

Consolidated PBY Catalina

 

[flyincowboy]

Avro shackleton

 

[Smithy]

American Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker...

 

[Pa12]

American Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker...

He always reminded me of ray bolger(scarecrow in wizard of oz)

 

[Smithy]

He always reminded me of ray bolger(scarecrow in wizard of oz)

Now that you mention it!

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[Smithy]

RFC BE.2C on a reconnaissance mission over trenches in the Grand Bois area, Belgium, 1916.

 

[Monsoon]

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Dude in the service cap is "Sundown" Wells. As in, "You're fired, get off my base by sundown."

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Micawber]

Taken on September 21st 1942 at RAF Topcliffe in Yorkshire as the mascot of 405 Squadron 'Skipper' plays with 22yr old wireless operator Flight Sergeant Albert Martin Carter of the R on CAF.
Ten days after this photograph was taken Albert and Mary's son from Ontario was lost during a raid on Flensburg on October 1st aboard Halifax W7710 which crashed near Liehaus with Albert and his crew resting in Kiel War Cemetery

C/O Darren Mark Walker who does much to remember and honour the fallen of WW2 from all nations.