Picture of the day

[ipscgraz]

 

[fingers284]

would be very interesting to know the story behind that wreck, why the second prop in the cockpit...one scenario I can come up with, it was on a carrier scheduled for a repair when the carrier was sunk.

 

[Brookwood]

would be very interesting to know the story behind that wreck, why the second prop in the cockpit...one scenario I can come up with, it was on a carrier scheduled for a repair when the carrier was sunk.

Or dumped at the end of the war.

Brookwood

 

[sail32]

The plane in post # 10121, what is it and where is it ?

 

[diopter]

The plane in post # 10121, what is it and where is it ?

http://www.sirenphotography.smugmug.com/

 

[Brookwood]

The plane in post # 10121, what is it and where is it ?

F4U-1A Corsair, located at Roi-Namur lagoon near the Kwajalein atoll in the South Pacific.

Quote from Wikipedia -

"After the war ended, working US airplanes were sunk off the Atoll, as a cheaper method than sending the airplanes back to the US. The airplane graveyard included several Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, Vought F4U Corsairs, Grumman TBF Avengers, Curtiss SB2C Helldivers, North American B-25 Mitchells, Curtiss C-46 Commandos and Grumman F4F Wildcats. "

http://www.largescaleplanes.com/articles/article.php?aid=582

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwajalein_Atoll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kwajalein

Brookwood

 

[sail32]

Interesting !

Thanks.

 

[grelmar]

Don't run if you can walk.
Don't walk if you can stand.
Don't stand if you can sit.
Don't sit if you can lie down.
Sleep whenever you get a chance.

(advice from an old infantryman who's name is lost to the ages)

 

[Gibbs505]

 

[diopter]

 

[Gibbs505]

 

[Gibbs505]

The Great White Fleet.

 

[Gibbs505]

Blackburn Buccaneer nose art during the Gulf War.

 

[Cdn303]

Don't run if you can walk.
Don't walk if you can stand.
Don't stand if you can sit.
Don't sit if you can lie down.
Sleep whenever you get a chance.

(advice from an old infantryman who's name is lost to the ages)

I heard a good one a few weeks ago. "One thing the military taught me was how to sleep anywhere."

 

[ipscgraz]

Roza Georgiyevna Shanina, Soviet Army. the deadliest female sniper during WW2, with 59 confirmed kills with only 19 years old.

 

[ipscgraz]

 

[ipscgraz]

Soviet t-34 tank driving over a trench. Battle of Kursk, WW2, 1943

 

[CV32]

Roza Georgiyevna Shanina, Soviet Army. the deadliest female sniper during WW2, with 59 confirmed kills with only 19 years old.

That honour is usually credited to Liudmyla Mykhailivna Pavlychenko, with 309 kills.

 

[diopter]

USS Mississinewa, Nov 20 1944

 

[Brandon3]

A Fleet Oiler Struck by a Kaiten manned torpedo and lost with 63 hands