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Rear defence gunners of a Junkers JU-188 medium bomber.
The Junkers Ju 188 was a Luftwaffe high-performance medium bomber, the planned follow-up to the Ju 88 with better performance and payload. It was produced only in limited numbers, due both to the presence of improved versions of the Ju 88, as well as the increasingly effective Allied strategic bombing campaign against German industry and the resulting focus on fighter production.
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That TB-3 picture above is likely one shot down on 10 March 1940 by Swedish pilot Gideon Karlsson from F19 Squadron stationed in Lapland.
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/sweden_karlsson.htm
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/89317
There was quite a few TB-3s shot down in both Winter and Continuation wars over Finland.Locals and army were more than happy to dismantle wrecks and use parts for whatever.
Many engines found their way to boats and aerosleds since they were not usable for anything else.
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/sweden_karlsson.htm
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/89317
There was quite a few TB-3s shot down in both Winter and Continuation wars over Finland.Locals and army were more than happy to dismantle wrecks and use parts for whatever.
Many engines found their way to boats and aerosleds since they were not usable for anything else.
This heartbreaking photo, taken on June 13, 1944, in Carentan, Normandy, shows an elderly couple (Mr and Mrs Lecanu) laying flowers on the body of an American hero killed during the Battle of Carentan. This French couple lived 300 yards from where this photo was taken.
What’s that wire in the dead paratroopers had? Was he hit laying out some telephone wire?
A former chief petty officer aboard HMS Rodney scrapping his own ship.
Robert Ellis, a former Chief Petty Officer aboard the Royal Navy Nelson-class battleship HMS Rodney, now holds onto her nameplate as a crane operator assisting in the process of the battleship being scrapped at the Thomas W Ward shipyard on 4 September 1950 in Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. The smoke from the burning sludge oil rises into the air from the broken hull of HMS Rodney, which had played a major role in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck during World War 2. (Photo by Don Price/ Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).
France (1881-90) – France’s ‘Grand Hotel’
The Hoche is now as then, the supreme ugly ducking in the nest, a testimony of how hard naval engineers of the time tried to push their luck with designs that had to square circles in terms of iron construction, heavy weaponry, stability as a gun platform, seaworthiness, and optimal protection, both active and passive.
The Hoche also incarnates with vivid colors the aberrations of the “Young School” naval think tank of young officers and engineers that imposed its views to the ministers of the 1880-1910 decades. They were firm believers in the most modern technologies as a way to compensate for the French Navy inferiority (towards the Royal Navy) through many innovations, almost rejecting the concept of capital ships battle lines. But the experimental nature of it all plagued the French Navy in many ways, generating extreme heterogeneity, odd solutions not repeated elsewhere, and excessive construction delays caused by too many revisions due to political instability.
And before that it was the USS Catfish during WW2 until it was transferred to Argentina in 1971.
She took a beating, a testament perhaps to the hardiness of the Balao class.
Early on the morning of Sunday, 25 April 1982 she was spotted on the surface while off Cumberland Bay by a Wessex HAS.3 from the Royal Navy County class destroyer HMS Antrim (D18). The helo attacked with a pair of Mk 11 depth charges (each comprising 170 lbs of Torpex explosive).
This initial attack caused fairly serious damage, but the sub limped back toward Grytviken (South Georgia.) A Lynx HAS.2 from the Type 22 frigate HMS Brilliant followed up with a considerably more modern Mk 46 lightweight torpedo (probably the Mod 2), but this missed its target. (They always did, in the South Atlantic, as it turned out.)
Wasp HAS.1 helicopters were then launched from the Antarctic patrol vessel HMS Endurance and the Rothesay class frigate HMS Plymouth. These launched AS.12 air to surface missiles, at least two of which are believed to have struck home (causing the damage to the sail that you can see in the photo.) The helos also strafed the sub with 7.62mm GPMG bursts.
The Royal Navy's warships closed the distance at high speed but they did not engage in any direct action against Santa Fe.
The submarine was still afloat but could not dive, and her crew abandoned her upon reaching the jetty at King Edward Point (South Georgia.)
She was scuttled in deeper water three years later.
