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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14775 on: 16-11-2017, 17:11:41 »
That pilot is not even a shade of himself anymore. Cool pic.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14776 on: 16-11-2017, 18:11:13 »
Seems like it's an Aichi D3A Val because of visible landing gears

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14777 on: 16-11-2017, 18:11:09 »


HMS Sussex has a 4.5" armored belt. The USS Hinsdale, a troopship, didnt. The picture shows the difference. You can identify a central large hole for the engine block/main fuselage and two holes beneath each wing caused by two bombs penetrating the armor. One of those exploded (as seen on the left), one didnt. Apparantly a third bomb was carried in the main fuselage, exploding deep in the ship in the engine room.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14778 on: 16-11-2017, 18:11:26 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14779 on: 16-11-2017, 20:11:46 »
Are those paradropped AT guns in pieces that the FJ have to put together in order to be able to fire?

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14780 on: 16-11-2017, 20:11:08 »
They are recoilless guns.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14782 on: 17-11-2017, 18:11:13 »
yes !
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14783 on: 17-11-2017, 22:11:30 »


AFDB-1 with West Virginia (BB-48) high and dry in the dock, off Aessi Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 13 November 1944. The battleship was docked for upkeep and repair to propellers damaged when she touched ground off Leyte on 21 October.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14784 on: 20-11-2017, 19:11:14 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14785 on: 21-11-2017, 10:11:07 »
Seems like it's an Aichi D3A Val because of visible landing gears

The report says it was one, but the place I got the picture from guesses that it was actually a Ki-51 and that the sailors misidentified it. I personally have no idea.


Soviet troops attack near the town of Kalach, where the advancing troops from the north and south pincer movements met on 22nd November, completing the encirclement of Stalingrad.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14786 on: 21-11-2017, 15:11:22 »
Where there any German generals who saw the Stalingrad disaster coming and tried to warn against it?

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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14788 on: 22-11-2017, 11:11:53 »
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14789 on: 22-11-2017, 18:11:12 »