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[chofo]

An interesting series of photographs and dialogue... Australians, 1917. I found "Wild Eye; The Souvenir King" to be intriguing... one has to wonder what he ever did with all this 'kit' when he had to change out of the line...

https://mashable.com/2016/10/23/fra...FpZTAXpPqfY9TAL1LqpL2k4I0nxUkXaDpP_3warMHr73c



Sept. 28, 1917

I had the questionable excitement of being potted at by a sniper; the ping of his shot whizzing past only a few yards away. This did not deter me getting a fine series of pictures of how our chaps live in the trenches. I also came across a weird individual, whose sole mania is collecting souvenirs. He goes into all positions and dives with a whoop on new prisoners and "acquires" the proprietorship of all their unprisonerlike trinkets and possessions. I took a photograph of him surrounded by a heap of watches, chains and innumerable miscellanies.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

An interesting series of photographs and dialogue... Australians, 1917. I found "Wild Eye; The Souvenir King" to be intriguing... one has to wonder what he ever did with all this 'kit' when he had to change out of the line...

Man's gotta have a hobby...

+++++++++++++++++++++++++

BF110 in Iraq:

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Man's gotta have a hobby...

I'd have left the artillery shell behind.

Grizz

 

[tokguy]

As for bullets above I find one on the right interesting.4 grooves on the side for expansion?

I was gifted a cartridge collection with one of these FMJ's in 6.5mm. Sort of wondered about it.

 

[Falcorn]

Last chopper leaving Saigon, April 30, 1975.

 

[Dosing]

 

[Ganderite]

^^ Russian fishing trawler?

 

[HuskyDude]

^^ Russian 5G fishing trawler?

There I fixed it for ya....

 

[Falcorn]

^^^
The last owner decided that space is for losers and sold this ship for scrap metal.

 

[cornelunc]

Last chopper leaving Saigon, April 30, 1975.

Hopefully will not represent the future of Canadaian citizens afther Canada will became a Marxist State.

 

[cornelunc]

An interesting series of photographs and dialogue... Australians, 1917. I found "Wild Eye; The Souvenir King" to be intriguing... one has to wonder what he ever did with all this 'kit' when he had to change out of the line...

https://mashable.com/2016/10/23/fra...FpZTAXpPqfY9TAL1LqpL2k4I0nxUkXaDpP_3warMHr73c

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Sept. 28, 1917

I had the questionable excitement of being potted at by a sniper; the ping of his shot whizzing past only a few yards away. This did not deter me getting a fine series of pictures of how our chaps live in the trenches. I also came across a weird individual, whose sole mania is collecting souvenirs. He goes into all positions and dives with a whoop on new prisoners and "acquires" the proprietorship of all their unprisonerlike trinkets and possessions. I took a photograph of him surrounded by a heap of watches, chains and innumerable miscellanies.

I like him. If he will live today will be a great Gunnutz.

 

[donor]

^^ Russian fishing trawler?

Soviet space control-monitoring ship Yuri Gagarin.Floating,mobile communication center. russians had few of those,this one was the largest.Too expensive to keep after 1989.

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


D.A Dan-did you find any more of close ups like this of Iraqi Me-110s or He-111? I can't find info if they had any camo or were they left with overall sand color.

I know they stayed in Luftwaffe and with German crews/tech support.Afaik Only new markings were painted on but photographic confirmation would be good.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Last chopper leaving Saigon, April 30, 1975.

An amazing picture. You couldn't pose people like this and get anything like the same effect.

Combover is the one we notice. That's a man pushed past the point where he's willing to be civilized. Behind him, a very scared Vietnamese fellow already on the helo appears to be trying to get the punchee on the aircraft. On closer examination, though, he's prying the punchee's fingers off the doorjamb. "Helo's full, fvck off." An ARVN soldier is hollering orders, his helmet askew. No one's listening. The old man in the front right foreground's looking over his shoulder - Does he hear tanks? Gunfire?

This is Last Boat Off the Titanic stuff. There's seldom been a better depiction of desperate people saving themselves during a breakdown of order as this.

Other angles of a similar thing - the Pittman Building, home to USAID and the top-floor residence of the CIA guy in Saigon:

N47004 is still out there somewhere:

Bell UH-1D (205D) XW-PFJ 3211 21 Sept. 67 bought new

Service history: an Agreement of sale between Bell Helicopters and Air America was signed on 29 May 67 (Minutes ExCom-AACL/AAM of 23 May 67, in UTD/CIA/B8F2); Bill of Sale for the unregistered aircraft dated 21 September 67 (Status as of 5 April 74, in: UTD/CIA/B56F3); officially bought by Air America on 30 September 67 at $ 328,645.75 (Accumulated costs as of 30 November 68, in: UTD/CIA/B40F8); previously probably financed by the Pacific Corp.;

Assigned to contract AID-439-713 for use out of Udorn on 14 October 67, still in May 68, called thru 30 June 68 (Aircraft status as of 1 May 68, in: UTD/Herd/B2); the main rotor blades struck the side of a slope near the heli pad at coordinates UG5923, Laos, on 30 January 68, and XW-PFJ tipped to the right and the skids separated (Accident report, in: UTD/Hickler/B24F3);

Repaired; still assigned to contract AID-439-713 for use out of Udorn 16-31 August 68 (F.O.C. of 15 August 68, in: UTD/LaShomb/B14);

Made a forced landing at Na Khang (LS-36), Laos, on 9 November 68, after engine failure (XOXO of 9 Nov. 68, in: UTD/Hickler/B26F17; Accident report, in: UTD/Hickler/B24F7); repaired; still assigned to contract AID-439-713 for use out of
Udorn 16-30 June 69 (F.O.Circular of 15 June 69, in: UTD/Hickler/B8F7B) and 16-31 August 69 (F.O.C. of 15 August 69, in: UTD/Hickler/B1F1); a photo taken on the Plain of Jars in September 69 can be seen in: Conboy, War in Laos;

On 31 October 69, XW-PFJ received battle damage at coordinates UG 1467, 12 miles northeast of Xieng Khouang (L-22); nobody on board was injured; the aircraft landed at L-22 and was later ferried to Udorn (T-08) (XOXO of 31 Oct. 69, in: UTD/Hickler/B25F9);

On 29 November 69, XW-PFJ suffered an engine failure while on final approach to the helipad at coordinates UG 2966, 13 miles northeast of Xieng Khouang (L-22) and made a hard landing, resulting in substantial damage to the landing gear; later repaired (XOXO of 29 Nov. 69, in: UTD/Hickler/B25F9);

Flew Udorn (T-08) - Long Tieng (LS-20A) on 15 January 70 (Log book of D. Keele, in: UTD/Keele/B1F6);

Struck by driverless jeep which rolled into the aircraft at Long Tieng (LS-20A) in Laos on 16 August 70, damaging the tail boom and the aft area of the fuselage; repaired and returned to service on 23 August 70 (XOXO of 16 Aug. 70, in: UTD/Hickler/B25F10; Minutes ExCom-AACL/AAM of 25 August 70, in: UTD/CIA/B8F4; a photo of this accident can be found in the collection of John Anthony, preserved at the TTU);

On 20 September 70, XW-PFJ received battle damage at an unknown location in the Long Tieng (LS-46) area, as the damage was discovered only after the end of the operation at Moung Moc (LS-20A); repaired (XOXO of 20 Sept. 70, in: UTD/Hickler/B25F10);

On 26 December 70, XW-PFJ received battle damage during rapid take-off from a pad at coordinates TG 8838 near Ban Na (LS-15) in Laos: a small caliber projectile narrowly missed the pilot, Capt. E. Reid, and the engine became too hot during take-off; but the aircraft managed to return to Udorn (T-08) for repair (XOXO of 26 December 70, in: UTD/Hickler/B25F10; XOXO of 28 December 70, still assigned to contract AID-439-713 for use out of Udorn 1-31 July 71 (F.O.Circulars of 1 and 15 July 71, in: UTD/Hickler/B8F7B);

Suffered a loss of RPM on take-off from Pa Doung (LS-05) in Laos on 26 March 72, causing substantial damage to the main rotor blades and the aircraft rolling onto the right side; the pilot, the co-pilot and 2 Lao passengers received minor injuries; repaired and returned to service on 11 June 72 (XOXO of 26 March 72, in: UTD/ Hickler/B27F2; Minutes ExCom-AACL/AAM of 14 April 72, in: UTD/CIA/B9F7); at Udorn in 1973 (photos in: UTD/Landry and UTD/Abadie/B1);

In use out of Udorn at least between 26 September 72 and 9 February 74 (Crew member duty report of H. F. Miller, in: UTD/Miller/B4F6); assigned to contract F04606-71-C-0002 for use out of Udorn at least 16-30 April 73 (F.O.C. of 16 April 73, in: UTD/Kaufman/B1F14), 1 November-31 December 73, and 1-30 April 74 (F.O.Circulars of 1 November 73, 1 December 73, and 1 April 74, in: UTD/Hickler/B8F7C); used out of Udorn as a spare aircraft 1-31 May 74 (F.O.Circular of 1 May 74, in: UTD/Hickler/B8F7C); ferried by Air America employee H. F. Miller from Udorn (T-08) to Saigon (V-01) via Bangkok (T-09) and Phnom Penh (C-01) on 23 June 74, still registered as XW-PFJ (Udorn daily flight schedule of 23 June 74, in: UTD/Spencer/B1F2).

Fate: the XW-reg was officially cancelled already on 14 May 74; the aircraft was stored at Saigon without registration (Undated aircraft list of late 74, in: UTD/CIA/B49F1); reg. N47004 was requested by Air America on 10 April 75 (Letter by Clyde S. Carter dated 10 April 75, in: UTD/CIA/B17F3).

N47004 3211 17 April 75 reregd. from XW-PFJ

Service history: officially regd. on 17 April 75, used as N47004 during the evacuation of Saigon on 29 April 75 (undated report by Boyd D. Mesecher, in: UTD/CIA/B17F4); this was the aircraft depicted on the famous photo on top of the Pittman Building on 29 April 75 (Letter by Robert Caron, in: Air America Log, vol. XVII, no. 2, April-June 2000, p. 14; Harnage, A thousand faces, pp. 145-60); a series of photos showing N47004 on top of the Pittman Building during operation “Frequent Wind” on 29 April 75 can be found at http://philippe.buffon.free.fr/images/vietnamexpo/heloco/index.htm .

Fate: was to be crated and shipped to the Continental US on 1 May 75 (Telex dated 20 March 75, in: UTD/CIA/B18F2); evacuated from Saigon aboard the USS Hancock (Aircraft list as of 15 May 75, in: UTD/CIA/B51F12) on 29 April 75 and shipped to Cubi Point, Philippines; maintained there by AVSCOM (US Army Aviation Systems Command, St. Louis, MI) personnel in May 75 and until 17 July 75; shipped to Corpus Christi, TX, between 17 July 75 and 18 August 75; stayed at Corpus Christi between 18 August 75 and 8 September 75; transported by truck from there to Roswell, NM, between 8 and 10 September 75; awaiting sale at Roswell at least between 10 and 30 September 75 (Letter by Clyde S. Carter dated 22 May 75, in: UTD/CIA/B17F4; Air America, owned aircraft as of 30 September 75, in: UTD/CIA/B56F1); did not receive an FAA certificate (Inventory, p. 17, photo on p. 16, in: UTD/CIA/B17F4); the only Bell 205 on the Inventory list made up by R. Dixon Speas Associates Inc and dated 10 and 11 November 1975, p. 3 (in: UTD/CIA/B18F6); sold to Omni Aircraft Sales, Washington DC, at $ 100,000 according to the Sales Agreement of 13 November 75, un-registered (Summary of aircraft sales, in: UTD/CIA/B40F6); sold to Omni Aircraft Sales, Washington, DC, on 2 February 76; deregistration requested on 9 February 76 (Letter by Clyde S. Carter dated 9 February 76, in: UTD/CIA/B18F9; Fleet list of 17 February 76, in: UTD/CIA/B18F9);

Sold to Columbia Helicopters, Portland, OR, in 1976 (?), current in 1978-81; sold to?, Tampa, FL, in 1983 (?); regd. to Bill Williams, Dothan, AL, on 2 November 1994; current with him in March 2004 (request submitted to the FAA on 13 March 2004 at http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/); still owned by Bill Williams, Dothan. AL in 2013; officially deregistered on 15 August 2013.

The building more recently - Pittman Apartments, Ho Chi Minh City:

 

[Sharps '74]

I have known Americans that maintain they "won" the Viet Nam War.

If that was"victory", I'd hate to see a defeat.

 

[fat tony]

This is said to be a FLN fighter during the Algerian War. It looks staged.

The reality of women combattants in the Algerian War is not a pretty story apparently.

 

[donor]

North American NA-88 AT-6D-NT Harvard III at Kjeller Air Show 2015 by Johnny Comstedt, on Flickr

When you translate "Me-108" to French you get this:

Nord 1002 Pingouin II (Messerschmitt Bf-108 Taifun) at Kjeller Air Show 2015 by Johnny Comstedt, on Flickr

 

[howard2]

This in Regina

 

[HuskyDude]

North American NA-88 AT-6D-NT Harvard III at Kjeller Air Show

Ya know seeing a Harvard in camo...just doesn't seem right for some reason...
Mid 70's got a chance for a short flight in Welland. Can't remember the owners name, friend of my Dads.
Did a few barrel rows and a couple loops...Wow!!!! Words can't describe it. My face hurt for a week cuz I couldn't stop smiling....

 

[diopter]

Short Sturgeon Experimental Variants.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Ya know seeing a Harvard in camo...just doesn't seem right for some reason...
Mid 70's got a chance for a short flight in Welland. Can't remember the owners name, friend of my Dads.
Did a few barrel rows and a couple loops...Wow!!!! Words can't describe it. My face hurt for a week cuz I couldn't stop smiling....

Think there is a Harvard club in Tillsonburg, brother in law went for a ride there, a couple of years back.

https://harvards.com/

Grizz