Picture of the day

[Dark Alley Dan]

Goose, you say?

Kodachrome for the win.

 

[sail32]

Grumman Flying Boats;

Northrop Grumman WebSite

http://www.msacomputer.com/flyingboats-old/grumman/grumman.html

4 engines on a Grumman Goose,

https://seaplanemagazine.com/2017/09/08/mckinnons-modified-goose-part-2/

http://www.wdaguy.com/NC709.html

 

[Brookwood]

Grumman Flying Boats;

Northrop Grumman WebSite

http://www.msacomputer.com/flyingboats-old/grumman/grumman.html

4 engines on a Grumman Goose,

https://seaplanemagazine.com/2017/09/08/mckinnons-modified-goose-part-2/

http://www.wdaguy.com/NC709.html

Kudos to him, that's some good old fashioned ingenuity and outside-the-box thinking you rarely see anymore.

 

[Ganderite]

Burial at sea:

 

[Sharps '74]

A warrior making the journey to Valhalla .....

 

[diopter]

Valhalla got really crowded in the 20th century.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

That's a remarkable bit of footage for a lot of reasons.

They took a handprint for positive confirmation of identity, I assume. And then they sent him and his plane to the bottom. That's an amazingly expensive casket, but I can't imagine anyone would want to fly gunner in that plane again after this. Probably best to send it as well.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Today (last night, actually) marks the 75th anniversary of the initial bombing of Hamburg, a.k.a Operation Gomorrah.

The RAF's first use of Window, aluminium chaff that thoroughly disoriented the defensive radar.

Not much to look at, but it worked:

They made a pretty thorough job of it. Hamburg was hammered very hard, and experienced the now-well-known "firestorm" phenomenon.

 

[donor]

Tikkakoski Airshow 2018 - Finland by Sami Niemeläinen (instagram: santtujns), on Flickr

VL Viima II from Finnish State Aircraft Factory.22 of them build and this survivor is in flying condition.From what I understood from drawings it's a mix of FW44 technology mixed with healthy dose of PO-2 ideas and simplicity.

 

[Brookwood]

Admiral Scheer lays capsized in Kiel, occupied Germany, in May 1945 -

After the war, the Allies extended the shoreline and just buried her where she lay.

And her location today - (the big curved outcropping of trees)

Brookwood

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Admiral Scheer lays capsized in Kiel, occupied Germany, in May 1945 -

After the war, the Allies extended the shoreline and just buried her where she lay.

And her location today - (the big curved outcropping of trees)

Brookwood

First pic shows the modular construction of German U boats as well, made elimination of production difficult.

Grizz

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Another angle:

 

[Pblatzz]

"She was partially broken up for scrap after the end of the war, though part of the hull was left in place and buried with rubble from the attack in the construction of a new quay. The number of casualties from her loss is unknown".....

 

[XRCD011]

^ Well, they did have lots of rubble to back fill things with.

 

[AP]

Admiral Scheer lays capsized in Kiel, occupied Germany, in May 1945 -

After the war, the Allies extended the shoreline and just buried her where she lay.

And her location today - (the big curved outcropping of trees)

Brookwood

Are you sure that this photo is where the remains of the ship are located .... everything I can find suggests that there is a still a canal/waterway where the ships remains were

 

[Brookwood]

Yup I'm pretty sure, I haven't been there myself, but this is where the Deutsches Marinemuseum says it is. The canal is just out of the frame.

"No ceremony or marking was done for the wreck as it was covered with rubble. In 1978 the Kieler Nachrichten newspaper pinpointed the location, which is inside the new Kiel Naval Arsenal. For many years it was said to be under the parking lot shown above, but with GPS and satellite imagery it’s now thought to be directly under the line of trees and brown grass just slightly to the parking lot’s southeast, in the above image’s center."

Here's a map of the harbour as it is today with the location of the Scheer superimposed over top. You can see how the shoreline has been advanced and the wreck is now well inland.

 

[Brookwood]

 

[AP]

Yup I'm pretty sure, I haven't been there myself, but this is where the Deutsches Marinemuseum says it is. The canal is just out of the frame.

"No ceremony or marking was done for the wreck as it was covered with rubble. In 1978 the Kieler Nachrichten newspaper pinpointed the location, which is inside the new Kiel Naval Arsenal. For many years it was said to be under the parking lot shown above, but with GPS and satellite imagery it’s now thought to be directly under the line of trees and brown grass just slightly to the parking lot’s southeast, in the above image’s center."

Here's a map of the harbour as it is today with the location of the Scheer superimposed over top. You can see how the shoreline has been advanced and the wreck is now well inland.

Thanks

(Ich verstehe nur "Einbahnstraße")

 

[XRCD011]

What are we looking at what I can only assume is a aircraft carrier on its side, maybe being scrapped ?

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I wonder how long it took to clean up after WW2. There were cubic miles of steel, aluminum, mines, bombs, bodies, and debris to get arranged.

I know there are still addresses in Klaipeda (was Memel) Lithuania that haven't been rebuilt yet. Barring a massive real estate boom, they likely never will. But some substantial effort must have been put in to simply clearing the streets so cities could function...

One wonders how much of that was organized, and if so under what jusridiction, and how much of it was Papa telling the kids "bring me bricks, we're building a house".