Posts tagged "World War 2"
  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: 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)

     
  3. 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)

     
  4. 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)

     
  5. 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)

     
  6. 2 years ago 
    Katyusha from the 2011 edition of the Warbird Pinup Girls Calender. See http://www.warbirdpinups.com/ and the models personal site here.

    Katyusha from the 2011 edition of the Warbird Pinup Girls Calender. See http://www.warbirdpinups.com/ and the models personal site here.

     
  7. Notes: 148 / 2 years ago  from xplanes
    xplanes: The Kyūshū J7W1 Shinden (震電, “Magnificent Lightning”) fighter prototype. Only two were finished before the end of the Second World War. (retouched/colourised photographs. the bottom one shows members of the Japanese design team alongside United States Airforce personnel)

    xplanes:

    The Kyūshū J7W1 Shinden (震電, “Magnificent Lightning”) fighter prototype. Only two were finished before the end of the Second World War.

    (retouched/colourised photographs. the bottom one shows members of the Japanese design team alongside United States Airforce personnel)

     
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