Fotos curiosas

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Esta es famosa:

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On this day in history .....

Lieutenant Ichiro Kitajima, group leader of the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Kaga’s Nakajima B5N bomber group, briefs his flight crews about the Pearl Harbor raid, which will take place the next day.

A diagram of Pearl Harbor and the aircraft’s attack plan is chalked on the deck.

(Carrier Kaga's fate: Scuttled after being heavily damaged by a US air attack at the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942)

(Photo source - Chihaya Collection)

(Colorized by Irootoko jr from Japan)

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Oberleutnant Karl Fischer’s Bf109E-1 (Wn.4851 9+) of 7./Jagdgeschwader 27, after a forced landing near Queen Anne’s Gate, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire. 17.00 hrs, 30 September 1940. The mission was a bomber escort. When the formation was on its way to the objective it was attacked by fighters, this aircraft getting into a dog fight.

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Ese "parking" no lo hace cualquiera, español tenía que ser....

Eso no lo hace ni un americano y un ruso, ahí está con dos C"j"nes...

Saludos.

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'Decoy Tank'
In the Pacific Theater of Operations, the Japanese utilized decoys; one recorded instance was during the Battle of Iwo Jima. A "tank" was surrounded by American infantry, which had been under artillery bombardment, they found it was not real, but merely a sculpture carved out of volcanic ash, 1945.
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A B-24 Liberator nicknamed "First Sergeant" of the 458th Bomb Group used as a flight assembly ship. Printed caption on reverse: '51280 AC- LEADER PLANE- This is "First Sergeant", a gaily painted leader plane used at a US Army 8th Air Force Liberator base somewhere in England to organise formations of B-24s after they take off for mission over enemy territory. There are bulb sockets on the sides of the plane so that it can be lit up for night formations. US Air Force photo.' Handwritten caption on reverse: '458 BG Assembly Ship "First Sergeant".'
Text Source ©IWM
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Bf-110 alcanzado por antiaérea.

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Todo un Junkers Ju-290A español. 1954. Salamanca.

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Four ground crew of No. 134 Squadron RAF load a 500-lb GP bomb, - inscribed with a Christmas message for the enemy, - beneath the wing of "Jungle Queen", a Republic Thunderbolt Mark II, at Ratnap, Burma. (December 1944- April 1945)

The airmen are (left to right): Leading Aircraftman James Rich of Glasgow, Aircraftman Cecil Cox of Ironbridge, Shropshire, Leading Aircraftman Richard Dunning and Aircraftman Edward Price of Tonypandy.

In May 1944 the squadron withdrew to India to convert to the Thunderbolt, but the first aircraft didn’t arrive until August and the squadron didn't return to operations over Burma until 7 December. The squadron was used to cover the Allied landing at Rangood in April 1945, before returning to India where on 26 June it was renumbered as No.131 Squadron.
(historyofwar.org)

(Photo source - © IWM CF 242)

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