total guess but WWI US troops carrying M1917s and wearing Tommy helmets?
To be honest your guess is as good as mine lol
total guess but WWI US troops carrying M1917s and wearing Tommy helmets?
The water bottle confirms Commonwealth troops. We were still issued them and the helmets in the 50’s and 60’s.
I've seen many pics of Soviet snipers with SVTs, and they are always holding the mag like that. Don't know why, but that seems to have been SOP.
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Specs (Ju 88A-4)
Type: multi-role, crew 2 to 6
Engine: Twin 1,340 Junkers Jumo 211J twelve-cylinder
Size: wingspan - 66 ft., length - 47 ft.
Weight: empty 17,640 lb., loaded 30,860 lb.
Speed/Range: 269 MPH; climb to 13,12 ft./min.; range 1,112 miles; ceiling 26,900 ft.
Weapons: two 7.92mm MG 81 machine guns forward, two MG 81 rearward
The Ju-88 came in so many configurations, that the specs above should be considered examples; there were many others.
They are Dornier Do 217Never saw birds like that before. Anyone know what they are? Some sort of light bomber?
Essentially an enlarged Do 17, the Dornier Do 217 was flown as a prototype in August 1938, powered by two 1,075 hp (802 kW) Daimler-Benz DB 601A engines. Although this aircraft crashed a few weeks later, the programme was continued by three prototypes powered by 950 hp (708 kW) Junkers Jumo 211A engines. The last of these (Do 217 V4) carried armament and, to improve directional stability, had enlarged vertical tail surfaces and modified dive brakes, whose four segments when closed formed the tail cone. A further three Jumo-engined aircraft were followed by two with 1,550 hp (1156 kW) BMW 139 radials in an attempt to improve performance, but the more advanced BMW 801 of similar output, introduced in late 1939, was adopted for the production Do 217A reconnaissance aircraft, of which eight were built under the designation Do 217A-0. Carrying two cameras and armed with three 7.92 mm (0.31 in) machine guns, these entered service with the Aufklarungsgruppe Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe in 1940.
German Junkers Ju88.
Specs (Ju 88A-4)
Type: multi-role, crew 2 to 6
Engine: Twin 1,340 Junkers Jumo 211J twelve-cylinder
Size: wingspan - 66 ft., length - 47 ft.
Weight: empty 17,640 lb., loaded 30,860 lb.
Speed/Range: 269 MPH; climb to 13,12 ft./min.; range 1,112 miles; ceiling 26,900 ft.
Weapons: two 7.92mm MG 81 machine guns forward, two MG 81 rearward
The Ju-88 came in so many configurations, that the specs above should be considered examples; there were many others.
I thought radial engines had an odd number of cylinders.
by the way, I love this thread.
Yup 100% thats a Dornier DO 217
RAF Museum has located one of these birds and will be SALVAGING IT this Summer!
When they have it up, it will be desalinised thoroughly and then dismantled and ultimately go for a full restoration.
End result: RAF will have the ONLY Dornier left! Currently, there are none.
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Yes, this is a FINE thread! First thing I look for when I turn The Beast on!
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