Posts tagged "WW II"
  1. Notes: 14 / 4 months ago  from countryboylife (originally from legrandcirque)
    rod42: American ground crew doing maintenance work on a bomber during WWII. Photograph by J.R. Eyerman. Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, 1944.

    rod42:

    American ground crew doing maintenance work on a bomber during WWII. Photograph by J.R. Eyerman. Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, 1944.

    (Source: legrandcirque)

     
  2. Notes: 158 / 4 months ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: Rescue on the ice by Bernt Balchen, 1942 (via, article)

    xplanes:

    Rescue on the ice by Bernt Balchen, 1942 (via, article)

     
  3. Notes: 15 / 10 months ago  from elledark
    elledark: Hiroshimas Spirit LanternsThe Japanese city of Hiroshima observed a moment of silence at 8.15am today. This was the time, early one morning 66 years ago on August 6, 1945, when America dropped the worlds first atomic bomb on a civilian population. The bomb destroyed most of the city and killed as many as 140,000 civilians. Days later the USA dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. killing tens of thousands more men, women and children. Schools and hospitals were reduced to rubble. Human beings were vaporized in the atomic blast or had the flesh ripped from their bones. Thousands more died agonizing deaths from radiation sickness and illnesses continue to this day, passed down through the generations.In Hiroshimas Peace Memorial Park today they lit spirit lanterns for the victims of the worlds first, and hopefully last, use of nuclear warfare. The full story and some amazing pictures here

    elledark:

    Hiroshimas Spirit Lanterns

    The Japanese city of Hiroshima observed a moment of silence at 8.15am today. This was the time, early one morning 66 years ago on August 6, 1945, when America dropped the worlds first atomic bomb on a civilian population.

    The bomb destroyed most of the city and killed as many as 140,000 civilians. Days later the USA dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. killing tens of thousands more men, women and children. Schools and hospitals were reduced to rubble. Human beings were vaporized in the atomic blast or had the flesh ripped from their bones. Thousands more died agonizing deaths from radiation sickness and illnesses continue to this day, passed down through the generations.

    In Hiroshimas Peace Memorial Park today they lit spirit lanterns for the victims of the worlds first, and hopefully last, use of nuclear warfare.

    The full story and some amazing pictures here

     
  4. Notes: 36 / 10 months ago  from xplanes (originally from fantagraphics)
    xplanes: sunday fantasy #335: reblog: electronicalrattlebag/fantagraphics: A page from “Belly Gunner” by Tim Lane for the next issue of Mome. See more at Tim’s blog.

    xplanes:

    sunday fantasy #335:

    reblog: electronicalrattlebag/fantagraphics:

    A page from “Belly Gunner” by Tim Lane for the next issue of Mome. See more at Tim’s blog.

     
  5. Notes: 1263 / 11 months ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: “View from atop the mast of the private yacht Freydis as it passes by a sunken three-seat Japanese float plane from WW2, said to have been sunk by American aircraft while anchored in the Shortland group of the Solomon Islands.” (via) A great photo, but just leaving the ID as “three-seat Japanese float plane” is not acceptable here. the chaps at the WIX forum investigated further..

    xplanes:

    “View from atop the mast of the private yacht Freydis as it passes by a sunken three-seat Japanese float plane from WW2, said to have been sunk by American aircraft while anchored in the Shortland group of the Solomon Islands.” (via)

    A great photo, but just leaving the ID as “three-seat Japanese float plane” is not acceptable here. the chaps at the WIX forum investigated further..

     
  6. Notes: 40 / 1 year ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: sunday fantasy #318: concept at for the movie Panzer 88, by Stuart Jennett

    xplanes:

    sunday fantasy #318: concept at for the movie Panzer 88, by Stuart Jennett

     
  7. Notes: 40 / 1 year ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: sunday fantasy #318: concept at for the movie Panzer 88, by Stuart Jennett

    xplanes:

    sunday fantasy #318: concept at for the movie Panzer 88, by Stuart Jennett

     
  8. Notes: 52 / 1 year ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: “Germany — This Northrop P-61 Black Widow crew chief of Lt. Colonel Oris B. Johnson’s 422nd ‘Green Bats’ Night Fighter Squadron decided it was time for a well earned bit of relaxation and his reaction to V-E Day news was this…” (via)

    xplanes:

    “Germany — This Northrop P-61 Black Widow crew chief of Lt. Colonel Oris B. Johnson’s 422nd ‘Green Bats’ Night Fighter Squadron decided it was time for a well earned bit of relaxation and his reaction to V-E Day news was this…” (via)

     
  9. Notes: 40 / 1 year ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: “Gunnery practice is one of the most important phases in a fighter pilots training. Here is a Lockheed P-38 making a strafing pass at a stationary target at an air base in Panama.” (via)

    xplanes:

    “Gunnery practice is one of the most important phases in a fighter pilots training. Here is a Lockheed P-38 making a strafing pass at a stationary target at an air base in Panama.” (via)

     
  10. Notes: 88 / 1 year ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: “MIRACULOUS ESCAPE—A dramatic picture of Lt. S.F. Ford, fighter-pilot from Baltimore, Maryland, walking from his Lockheed P-38 Lightning unharmed a few seconds after he crash landed. He was shot down in flames by a Jap Zero over Mindoro Island” (1945)

    xplanes:

    “MIRACULOUS ESCAPE—A dramatic picture of Lt. S.F. Ford, fighter-pilot from Baltimore, Maryland, walking from his Lockheed P-38 Lightning unharmed a few seconds after he crash landed. He was shot down in flames by a Jap Zero over Mindoro Island” (1945)

     
  11. Notes: 67 / 1 year ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: “S/Sgt. Lawrence D. Sand, Boeing B-29 Superfortress gunner from Emerado, North Dakota, loads his .50 cal., tail machine guns prior to a 20th Bomber Command mission against Japan. CHINA. 444th Bomb Group.” (1944)

    xplanes:

    “S/Sgt. Lawrence D. Sand, Boeing B-29 Superfortress gunner from Emerado, North Dakota, loads his .50 cal., tail machine guns prior to a 20th Bomber Command mission against Japan. CHINA. 444th Bomb Group.” (1944)

     
  12. Notes: 67 / 1 year ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: “S/Sgt. Lawrence D. Sand, Boeing B-29 Superfortress gunner from Emerado, North Dakota, loads his .50 cal., tail machine guns prior to a 20th Bomber Command mission against Japan. CHINA. 444th Bomb Group.” (1944)

    xplanes:

    “S/Sgt. Lawrence D. Sand, Boeing B-29 Superfortress gunner from Emerado, North Dakota, loads his .50 cal., tail machine guns prior to a 20th Bomber Command mission against Japan. CHINA. 444th Bomb Group.” (1944)

     
  13. Notes: 44 / 2 years ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: The German Henschel P.75 fighter design, circa 1941. intended to replace the Messerschmitt Bf 110, the aircraft never made it beyond the wind tunnel stage. (CG image by Andreas Otte. Side view by Justo Miranda)

    xplanes:

    The German Henschel P.75 fighter design, circa 1941. intended to replace the Messerschmitt Bf 110, the aircraft never made it beyond the wind tunnel stage.

    (CG image by Andreas Otte. Side view by Justo Miranda)

     
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