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Memphis Belle Departs for Home

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The famous B-17 Flying Fortress “Memphis Belle” and her crew depart England for home.

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WAVES Photos

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

WAVES Wash Navy Airplane in WW2 - Color Photograph

Two WAVES wash a North American SNJ plane. (U.S. Navy Photograph)

WAVES WWII Tour USS Missouri Color Picture

WAVES tour the USS Missouri (BB-63). (U.S. Navy Photograph)

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Saga of a Tanker

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Saga of a Tanker

Torpedoed by an Axis submarine, this U.S. tanker became a raging inferno–but crew members fighting heroically quelled the flames and the tanker was towed to port by a U.S. Naval ship. Because her men refused to surrender to fire and sea, the tanker soon will be back in active service aiding the Nation against its enemies. This spectacular picture is an official U.S. Navy photograph.

(U.S. Navy Photograph)

Source: All Hands: Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, November 1942.

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Destroyed Marder III

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

German Marder III Destroyed in Italy during World War 2

Allied soldier examines a Marder III destroyed on the road to Rome in Italy during WW2. (USAF Photo)

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Aviation Mech

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Raymond Dalton Kelly, AMM1c, arrives from the South Pacific for a course in Advanced Hydraulics at Technical Training Center, 87th at Anthony Avenue, Chicago. He’s been out there and has helped to prepare planes for action against the enemy. So he knows that victory over enemy planes and craft depends as much on his efficiency as an aviation mech as it does on the skill of the pilot, accuracy of the plane’s gunner or air bomber. Kelly’s CO knew that he was qualified, sent him to bring back the latest dope. (Naval Aviation News, August 1944.)

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Flak Suit Made of Steel

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

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Glider Pickup at Eindhoven

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Gliders used in Operation Market Garden are retrieved from Holland to be used again in future airborne operations. A special glider pickup device is used to allow the gliders to be retrieved without landing the tow plane.

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Jumo 211D Engine Installed in Ju 87 Stuka

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Original Bundesarchiv Caption: Wartung/Reparatur eines Flugzeuges vom Typ Junkers Ju 87; KBK Lw1, Reichsgebiet, 22 December 1939, Böcker.

Attribution: Bundesarchiv file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license. Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-378-0037-16A / Böcker / CC-BY-SA.

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Guardians of the Sky

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

“Guardians of the Sky” article from C.I.C. (Combat Information Center), U.S. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Vol. I, No. 6, August 1944.

Guardians of the Sky

An enemy raid is being tracked on the display plot in this “action shot” of an Air Defense Control Center at Bougainville. Liaison officers have alerted the base. Island and Air Command, AA Batteries, and ADCC’s of other bases and ships. The Fighter Director Officer has assigned the raid to an intercept officer (not in the picture) who, from an intercept table or PPI, is vectoring fighters to intercept the raid.

An Air Combat Intelligence officer briefs the pilots before they go out on a mission. Their tense attitude shows that they know from experience how vital is the information which he is giving them on landmarks, radar evasion, enemy opposition to be expected, weather conditions enroute, communications procedures, and plan of attack.

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German Panthers as Ersatz M10s

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

During the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans disguised several Panther tanks as U.S. M10 tank destroyers (“Ersatz M10”). Part of the Operation Greif created and commanded by Otto Skorzeny, Panzer Brigade 150 deployed these Panther Ausf. G tanks which had been extensively modified and painted to resemble U.S. M10 tank destroyers.

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