Official Cool Picture - Video Thread.

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[Texasgordo]

 

[Texasgordo]

 

[Younggun]

Scary stuff what happened to the air crews in those bombers. To say they were brave is a serious understatement .

Spoke to a top turret gunner from a Liberator.

Told him it was amazing what he did. He said “I was just doin my job”.


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[PhulesAu]

Spoke to a top turret gunner from a Liberator.

Told him it was amazing what he did. He said “I was just doin my job”.


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Same reply from a B17 belly turret gunner.

 

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I did a video of my Uncle's B-24 WWII history, and found several pictures of his airplane "Dinah Might!" After he rotated home, his plane crash landed and this is what's left.

 

[DubiousDan]

American mechanic working on the tail fuse of a AN-M64 'Carpetbagger' general purpose 500lb bomb in the forward bomb bay of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-29 could carry 32 x 500lb GP Bombs

 

[DubiousDan]

Gunner Kenneth Bratton USNR is pulled out of the gun turret of Air Group Commander Henry H. Caldwell's Avenger Torpedo Bomber by Lt Julius 'Julie' Bescos, after a raid on Rabaul, Papua New Guinea on 5 November, 1943

 

[DubiousDan]

Sgt Harold E Rogers from Miami, Oklahoma, poses with his dog mascot 'Mister', half chow and half police hound, in the waist gun position of a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed 'Un Petit Peu' of the 401st Bomb Group, US Army 8th Air Force, just before a bombing mission over Germany

 

[DubiousDan]

The crew of B-17G 'Bolo Babe' (42-102601) of the 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th BG, pose on top of their plane after a crash landing in France. Bolo Babe crash-landed near Moyeuvre-Grande, West of Thionville, France after she lost an engine and her electrical system during a mission to attack a BMW plant in Ludwigshafen Germany, 9 September, 1944. The entire crew returned to the UK by C-47 and returned to flight status on 13 September, 1944

 

[DubiousDan]

RAF paratroopers are pictured inside the fuselage of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft during training at RAF Ringway, August 1942

 

[DubiousDan]

Diving into D-Day: This image from 5 June, 1944, entitled the Final Embarkation, shows four 'stick' commanders of 22nd Independent Parachute Company, British 6th Airborne Division, synchronising watches in front of an Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle of 295th Squadron, No 38 Group, Royal Air Force, at about 11.30pm on the 5 June, just prior to take off from RAF Harwell, Oxfordshire

 

[DubiousDan]

American Troops of the 101st Airborne Division relax beside their decorated CG-4 Waco glider before the take-off for the assault on Holland

 

[DubiousDan]

Leading Aircraftman RP Coulson removes the guns from a Canadian (RCAF) Spitfire which was heavily damaged while on the ground at Grave, Holland, in March 1945 when a Luftwaffe plane dropped a fragmentation bomb in a hit-and-run raid

 

[DubiousDan]

A 'dusty' Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft undergoing maintenance. Aviation ordnance men service the .50 caliber machine guns including the plane's turret gun, circa 1944-45

 

[DubiousDan]

American Airborne Troops of the 101st Airborne Division (probably 501 PIR) that landed behind the German lines in the south of the Netherlands examine what is left of one of the gliders that had 'cracked up' on 18 September, 1944. The crash included fatalities

 

[DubiousDan]

Paratroopers of the 22 Independent Parachute Company, British 6 Airborne Division, with their toy mascot 'Pegasus' at RAF Harwell, 5 June, 1944

 

[DubiousDan]

Pictured is an image of a Consolidated Liberator V Mark IV of RAF 70th squadron that was hit in friendly fire during a daylight raid on the shipbuilding yards of Monfalcone, Trieste, Italy, in 1945 .Although the bombs had not fallen far enough to become 'live', the perspex of Pilot Wally Lewis's mid-upper turret was completely ripped away. Lewis later described the incident: 'I was looking up and saw a bomb leave an aircraft above us. I saw it getting bigger and bigger as it came towards us. The next thing I realised was that the fuselage had been hit near the flight deck and I seemed to be pushed down in front of my seat.

 

[DubiousDan]

A party of riggers working on the tailplane of a Supermarine Spitfire of No. 601 Squadron RAF at Lentini West, September 1943, Sicily, Italy

 

[Dad_Roman]

Sgt Harold E Rogers from Miami, Oklahoma, poses with his dog mascot 'Mister'....

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Coolest thing in that pic is the custom made canine O-mask!



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