Picture of the day

[grelmar]

The last thing you'll ever see... Oh, wait, no... You won't even see them coming. Just a bright flash as the world around you is reduced to component atoms.

 

[MarkCNP]

Italian Blackshirt in Russia?

Not sure, but I like the militaristic bathrobe.

 

[Gibbs505]

82nd Airborne Division being dynamic as #### during Operation Urgent Fury, 1983.

 

[MarkCNP]

 

[AP]

Interesting photo...I wonder what the significance of the flowerpot balanced on the soldiers shoulder is? Or the US flag?

 

[fraserdw]

114 served through the war and earned more citations d'armee than any other French unit. They were the last unit to carry their colour into battle.

 

[donor]

It's not flowerpot,it's bouquet of flowers in national colors(+garnishment?) on tip on one of bayonets.
Polish Blue Army brought this custom with them to Poland.There are some surviving photos of them with same arrangement.

btw-If I was looking for more info on 114th on net what name should I look for?I don't know how to name this unit in French.

 

[fraserdw]

It's not flowerpot,it's bouquet of flowers in national colors(+garnishment?) on tip on one of bayonets.
Polish Blue Army brought this custom with them to Poland.There are some surviving photos of them with same arrangement.

btw-If I was looking for more info on 114th on net what name should I look for?I don't know how to name this unit in French.

Type it in French, there's a ton of stuff, they are a resererve unit today. I used 114 regiment infanterie

 

[MarkCNP]

Good tip fraserdw.

 

[Gibbs505]

 

[Gibbs505]

The B-17F Flying Fortress “Memphis Belle” under restoration at the National Museum of the US Air Force. The “Memphis Belle” was one of the first Fortresses to reach 25 combat missions during the Second World War, a feat which would send the bomber and her crew back home to sell war bonds. As of 2016, the airplane is still under restoration at the museum

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Long may she run.

Many didn't make it. Kingman, AZ, 1946:

In happier times, many miles away.

 

[CV32]

I really hope Russia plans to preserve at least one of these as a museum before scrapping them all.

One of them, TK-208 Dmitry Donskoi, is still in service, although not in original Project 941 form but as a missile trials platform under Project 941U. The other two remaining boats, TK-17 Arkhangelsk and TK-20 Severstal, are due to be scrapped but afaik this has not happened yet. Their SS-N-20 ballistic missiles are long gone.

 

[Gibbs505]

 

[Gibbs505]

I do not know the story behind this one, but I would like to!!

 

[Gibbs505]

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” Elbert Hubbard

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I do not know the story behind this one, but I would like to!!

Photoshopped.

One of the Thunderbirds "leaving the office early".

 

[Gibbs505]

Ah ha, explained and great work! Quick!

 

[shredder]

Any idea which submarine this is? The link doesn't identify her.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

German Unterseeboot, under Canadian management, 1945.

And one of the fat old girls that kept der U-bootmann up at night.