Random Cool Photo Thread

[flyincowboy]

Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Swiss Fliegertruppe

 

[flyincowboy]

P47 THE JUG

 

[flyincowboy]

A French Lieutenant explains the mechanism of the Nieuport plane at Fort Monroe, Virginia, during WWI.

 

[flyincowboy]

A proud man standing with his SPAD S.VII.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

It is KMS Gneisenau

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Dear Jeff, what about this baby?

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Smithy]

To fly in WWII was dangerous, to fly in WWI was miles beyond that. Still history's most viscerally bloody aerial conflict and yet a few can still give a smile to the camera whilst participating in it.

1 Sqn RAF at Clairmarais (not far from Ypres) in July 1918. Not many know that the scale of slaughter in the air was at one of its worst in the final summer and autumn months of the war.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[FlakMagnet]

Victor Company 1st Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
About to head out on patrol
Phuoc Tuy, 1967

For you @Smithy

 

[Smithy]

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Victor Company 1st Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
About to head out on patrol
Phuoc Tuy, 1967

For you @Smithy

Great photo as it was very, very rare to see Kiwis wearing M1 steel pots!

 

[FlakMagnet]

Great photo as it was very, very rare to see Kiwis wearing M1 steel pots!

Here’s another one for you @Smithy. Kiwi artillerymen in Vietnam sporting M1’s with either Mitchell or frogskin camo helmet covers.

Speaking of M1 helmets, I’ve seen pictures at the Waiouru Army Museum of late early-mid 90s NZ Army soldiers with DPM pattern helmet covers.

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[Griffon_301]

To fly in WWII was dangerous, to fly in WWI was miles beyond that. Still history's most viscerally bloody aerial conflict and yet a few can still give a smile to the camera whilst participating in it.

1 Sqn RAF at Clairmarais (not far from Ypres) in July 1918. Not many know that the scale of slaughter in the air was at one of its worst in the final summer and autumn months of the war.

Black September 1918 was even worse than Bloody April 1917...

 

[Micawber]

Mosquito fuselage construction

 

[Micawber]

Mosquito…

 

[Micawber]

Random…

 

[Lorenzo_l]

Mosquito…

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What a beautiful aeroplane. Being loaded with a 4,000lb "cookie" bomb, probably on its way to Berlin for a short visit.