Military Pictures & Info

[rice paddy daddy]

Those P-38's look like a bugger to fly. I wonder what the pilots thought of them? They really are a beautiful design, just based on the looks.

The pilots in the Pacific Theater liked them because over long stretches of open ocean the twin engines gave them a greater chance if their plane got hit.
It was a group of P-38's that ambushed and shot down Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack.

 

[Neb]

A German soldier shared a cigarette with a British soldier during WW1

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Splitting hairs.

Th Brit is lighting his cigarette from the lit German soldier's. Saves a match.

Ben

 

[Peanut]

British troops eating their Christmas dinner in a shell hole in Beaumont-Hamel, Somme, France on Christmas Day, 25 December 1916.

 

[Peanut]

USS Kearsarge, 1860s... for those who may not remember. This was a very important ship for two reasons... One, i believe it was the first ship supplied with the Dahlgren rifled naval guns (see below).

Two, the Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama at the battle of Cherbourg. The Alabama was the terror of the sea for union shipping. Sank or captured 70 union ships in just over 2 years.

The Kearsarge

RDML John Dahlgren: Nov. 13, 1809 – July 12, 1870 “Father of modern naval ordnance”

Founded US Navy Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in naval gunnery — primarily the Dahlgren rifled naval gun.

Dahlgren, from Philadelphia, was the preeminent American naval ordnance designer of his day.

Civil War commandant of Washington Navy Yard. In 1863 he commanded South Atlantic Blockade Squadron, helping William Sherman secure Savannah, Georgia.

Dahlgren’s son, Ulrich, a Union officer famous for reconnaissance in Gettysburg campaign, was killed in an unsuccessful raid to liberate Union prisoners in Richmond in 1864.

Dahlgren’s brother, Brigadier-general Charles Dahlgren, served for the Confederate States, commanding a brigade of Mississippi militia.

— CP

RDML Dahlgren aboard USS Pawnee in 1865

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[Peanut]

American soldiers photographed in 1919 returning home after World War I

 

[Peanut]

A nervous little girl waits with her doll and luggage before being evacuated to the countryside; London, May 1940

 

[Peanut]

Father Christmas delivering presents to the children taking shelter in the tunnels of the London Underground in December 1940

 

[Peanut]

The Royal Air Force's Mosquitos, Mk IV

 

[Peanut]

England during ww2

 

[Peanut]

No caption for this photo, clearly ww2, buildings look french.

 

[Peanut]

Can't imagine how noisy these tanks were. Bet the pigeon couldn't wait to fly anywhere... as long as it was away from the tank.
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A messenger pigeon being released from a port hole in the side of a British Mark V tank of the 10th Battalion, Tank Corps. Photograph taken near Albert, France on the 9 August 1918 during the Battle of Amiens (1918).

 

[Peanut]

US Army Tech Sgt. Meredith Rogers showing how lucky he was when his helmet got punctured by a sniper bullet. Photograph taken in Normandy, France on the 13 July 1944

 

[Peanut]

Pvt. James L. Poust with a mud-covered face after having carried wounded men over mired and muddy roads of eastern France on 13 November 1944

 

[Peanut]

First and last production models of the Spitfire Mark 1 and Mark 24

I didn't realize they changed so much over time... almost looks like a different plane.

 

[Peanut]

00 January 1945. US Navy Curtiss SB2C Helldiver from USS Hornet over burning Japanese fleet oiler. French Indochina

 

[Peanut]

No caption for this one... has to be Vietnam.

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Edit, thanks @Neb

On 18 July 1970, a South Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) UH-1D Huey helicopter hovers above Vietnamese Air Force personnel of the 211th Helicopter Squadron on a combat assault in the Mekong Delta area of Vietnam.

 

[Neb]

No caption for this one... has to be Vietnam.

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See here

Ben

 

[Bacpacker]

First and last production models of the Spitfire Mark 1 and Mark 24

I didn't realize they changed so much over time... almost looks like a different plane.

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Never knew the Spitfire changed like that. Big improvements, much more powerful engine. And the canopy gave much better vision all the way around

 

[kd4ulw]

 

[Peanut]

During World War II, it was common for soldiers to keep family photos under clear grips on their 1911 pistols. They were called “sweetheart grips.”

 

[Peanut]

Japanese cruiser Ashigara visiting Kiel.

No year or other info with photo.

 

[Peanut]

1898 during the Spanish-American War while he was a Colonel

 

[Peanut]

found this today, didn't know about this tank.

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Soviet IS-2 heavy tanks near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany after the fall of Berlin in May 1945.

 

[Neb]

found this today, didn't know about this tank.

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Soviet IS-2 heavy tanks near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany after the fall of Berlin in May 1945.

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I BELIEVE the US was building tanks for Russia near the end of the war.

Ben

 

[kd4ulw]

Caption said this is the photographic equipment that was used in one of the Bikini nuclear tests.

 

[Lenny]

USS Kearsarge, 1860s... for those who may not remember. This was a very important ship for two reasons... One, i believe it was the first ship supplied with the Dahlgren rifled naval guns (see below).

Two, the Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama at the battle of Cherbourg. The Alabama was the terror of the sea for union shipping. Sank or captured 70 union ships in just over 2 years.

The Kearsarge
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There was also a USS Kearsarge during the Vietnam War. It was an aircraft carrier that launched a lot of planes 24/7 that drop bombs over there. I was on another ship that refueled ships on Yankee and Dixie Stations (North and South Vietnam).

 

[kd4ulw]

The kick-off to the Kentucky Derby was Saturday with an Airshow followed by the largest fireworks show in North America. I was a few miles away and didn’t stay out for fireworks.

 

[Peanut]

I didn't know B-52's were still flying. Thought they were all retired...

Anyway, glad you got to see them. They are impressive when flying low.

Here's an odd pic without a caption..probably Vietnam.

 

[zoomzoom]

I didn't know B-52's were still flying. Thought they were all retired...

Not at all retired. They've outlived what were supposed to be their replacements. The B-52 and the C-130 are both expected to be an airframe/platform that lasts 100 years. Impressive.

 

[Neb]

I didn't know B-52's were still flying. Thought they were all retired...

Anyway, glad you got to see them. They are impressive when flying low.

Here's an odd pic without a caption..probably Vietnam.

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Ben