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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #45 on: 02-04-2009, 05:04:51 »
Captured FW190..



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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #46 on: 02-04-2009, 11:04:57 »
And one more:



If I remember corect,
That B-17 hase been captured on Java, the Americans send bomber and fighter groups to suport the Dutch and British defending there. The 2 fighters in front of the B-17 are defently dutch, cose we where the only one ho ever used it in a combat roll.

The small singelseater is a Curtiss-Wright CW-21 Interceptor and the 2 seater is the Curtiss Falcon.
They where both orderd by the Dutch Goverment in defence against the German invasion, they where to late deliverd and there for send to the Dutch East indiës, 42 Interceptor's where availible by the time the Japs invade. It hade Topspeed off 500 k/ph  at a altetude of 1700 meters it could pull up with a speed of 24.4 m/ps what was very good for its time. armed with 4 7,7mm guns where just to weak against the japanees fighters armed with canons.

Here is a other picture of the Interceptor:



"If I advance, follow me. If I stop, urge me on. If I retreat, kill me."

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #47 on: 02-04-2009, 12:04:57 »
Weren't B-17s around those times equipped without a tail gun?

I'm not sure.

And I don't really remember many Japanese fighters with razorbacks like that, so is that a captured Wildcat or early P-47 everyone's crowded around? The tail, wing shape, and size are really throwing me off.

I think its a wildcat

nevermind, i didnt read the above post, apparently its a Dutch aircraft.

*edit*

now another interesting pic from my collection:



A US Army soldier wearing US Marine Corps camouflage in Normandy. If memory serves me the caption for this pic is some units in the Army actually used the Marine Corps camouflage. But soon after Normandy many of them that used the camouflage went back to the Army O.D.s because the camo was too similar to the Waffen-SS camouflage uniforms and there were too many friendly fire incidents.

BTW the USMC used this camo uniform from 1943 til 44 but in 1945 i think they went back to their old uniforms that are similar to the army's O.D.s because the poor dye used in the uniform would actually start to turn white in the hot pacific sun after many a days of combat and they would of course stand out and be exposed.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #48 on: 02-04-2009, 12:04:37 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #49 on: 02-04-2009, 15:04:42 »

RTR tank crews being introduced to the new American M3 Stuart tank at a training depot in Egypt, 17 August 1941. Note the Matilda in the background.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #50 on: 02-04-2009, 18:04:39 »
Ferdinand after 152-mm shell hit

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #51 on: 02-04-2009, 19:04:33 »
dutch soldier, ymuiden, may 1940

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #52 on: 02-04-2009, 19:04:59 »
"Fritz, I think we've got enough ammo for ze MG..."


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #53 on: 02-04-2009, 21:04:46 »
Sherman crew snatching a Ha-Go:

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #54 on: 03-04-2009, 07:04:11 »


Fallschirmjager on the russian front.  Note the FJ badge...its the HEER badge, meaning this guy is an alte hasse of the FJ.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #55 on: 03-04-2009, 13:04:39 »
One of my favorite pics of WW2 (besides the one in my sig):



American troops marching down the Champs Elysees

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #56 on: 03-04-2009, 14:04:18 »

US soldier uses a captured Japanese light machine gun in Guadalcanal

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #57 on: 03-04-2009, 18:04:16 »
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #58 on: 03-04-2009, 18:04:27 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #59 on: 03-04-2009, 18:04:04 »
17 july 1944, Moscow