Official Cool Picture - Video Thread.

[wakosama]

Carriers steam with a group. Probably a cameraman on a destroyer

 

[msharley]

curious that someone was in position to get the top picture.

Rescue chopper?

 

[Sasquatch]

Carriers steam with a group. Probably a cameraman on a destroyer

You can see a dark dot off in the distance in the first pic, most likely the aircraft that the photographer for number two was in.

 

[General Zod]

From what I've read, the flyby wasn't a surprise. The altitude was. Nobody expected a B-52 to fly below the level of the flight deck...other than the crew of the BUFF.

Also, although the B-52 looks like it's pointed downward, they just fly nose-low. A quirk of the design.

 

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[orbitup]

curious that someone was in position to get the top picture.

You can see the helicopter in the second picture.

 

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[oohrah]

My Uncle was a radio operator on a B-24 in Italy. After recording his WWII story, I did some searching for pictures. This is his B-24 "Dinah Might" that crashed on landing. He had rotated home before the crash.

 

[Mills]

American soldiers shoot at Filipino insurgents from the trenches. 1899.