Picture of the Day

[Hjaldrgud]

Intredesting. He fires it overhand. (In a way)

[Dukat]

The fighting in Berlin must have been the weirdest event to witness, ever. I still believe that there must have been almost more foreigners fighting than germans. Many germans had already deserted when their units had passed their native regions.


21-cm-Mörser 18, Sächsische Straße, Berlin, 1945.

Edit:// This particular mortar is now displayed at the US Army Field Artillery Museum, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

[Roughbeak]

Isn't that kind of uncomfortable?

[Korsakov829]

Not really, unless you're stuck there for an hour or somebody gets the smart idea to elevate the gun.

[Dukat]

B-17G 'Flying Fortress' of the 381st Bombardment Group in flight with a North American P-51 'Mustang' of the 359th Fighter Group.

Left to right: 

• Boeing B-17G-40-BO 'Marsha Sue', #42-97059, 533rd Bomb Squadron, exempted after emergency landing on January 4th, 1945.
• Boeing B-17G-70-BO 'Patches'/'Flak Magnet'/'Trudie's Terror', #43-37675, 532nd Bomb Squadron, detained after an emergency landing in Sweden on March 1st, 1945.
• Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-35-DL 'Sleepy Time Gal', #42-107112, 532nd Bomb Squadron.

Rear:

• Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-35-DL 'Little Guy', #42-106994, 532nd Bomb Squadron, shot down by german AA in the area of Appeldoorn, Netherlands, November 26th, 1944.
• P-51B 'Mustang', #42-106950, 359th Fighter Group.

[Ivancic1941]

And where they were going,maybe some particulary

[Born2Kill 007]

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_camps_in_Sweden_during_World_War_II) :
Internment of Allied air crews
A number of British and US servicemen, primarily crew members of the aircraft damaged during bombing missions over Germany, found themselves on Swedish soil, and were interned by the Swedish authorities. Unlike civilian refugees from Germany, who were kept in interment camps, British and American airmen were placed in hotels and bed and breakfast establishments in the Falun area, and enjoyed relative freedom. They received their regular military pay from their home countries, which allowed them to be much better off than the local Swedish residents.

There are worse ways to have your war come to an end

[Torenico]

Information, in French, roughly said:

17 November 1944, Lorient. A PoW exchange took place between the US and Germany. These men belong to the 94th Infantry Division and apparently the prisioners were from the 104st Infantry Regiment attached to said unit. It does not mention anything about the German PoWs.

[Dukat]

Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-25-DL, 'Stormy Weather', #42-38005, 351st Bombardment Group, 511th Bomb Squadron, started from the airfield Polebrook, England, for a sortie on Berlin. After having been hit by german anti-aircraft fire over Berlin, the crew expirienced engine failures and was forced to turn northwards in order to reach neutral Sweden. Pilot Captain Robert B. Clay considered the danish isle of Als to be swedish territory and ordered the crew to drop out over the village of Svenstrup before he crash-landed the airplane, May 24th, 1944. All crewmen survived and returned home after the war.

[Roughbeak]

Early Focke Wulf 190 in color!

[Dukat]

Consolidated PBY-5A 'Catalina', Lockheed PV-1 'Ventura', Aleutian Islands, USA, 1943.

[Dukat]

Scene from Saint-Lô, France, July 1944.

[Torenico]

[Tyler]

One of the Japanese invasion barges used in their abortive landing attempt at Milne Bay, now salvaged and put into use by Australian engineers.

September 1942

[Leopardi]

Breda M35 position in Suulajärvi, 1943.