Picture of the Day

[General Tso]

On this day in 1936, the first flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 110 prototype.

Note: I don't know where/when the picture above was taken, but it wasn't the first flight, lol.

Edit: Fixed hotlinking issue

[Cory the Otter]

I think your picture is more modern than you think.

[VonMudra]

On this day in 1936, the first flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 110 prototype.

Note: I don't know where/when the picture above was taken, but it wasn't the first flight, lol.

Lol, yeah, that was taken over the Mediterranean

[Battlefieldfan45 (CroPanzer)]

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Bf-109E
Just to save this post from being deleted 

[Cory the Otter]

[Steel_Lion_FIN]

Finnish machine-gunners wearing Cajander-type uniforms?

[Graf_Radetzky(CZ)]

Wiener Ring, 1945, you can see Opera

[Dukat]

The Grand Slam was a 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) earthquake bomb used by RAF Bomber Command against strategic targets during the Second World War.

Known officially as the Bomb, Medium Capacity, 22,000lb, it was a scaled up version of the Tallboy bomb and closer to the original size that the bomb inventor Barnes Wallis had envisioned when he first developed his earthquake bomb idea.

On this day back in 1945 the first one was used

By the end of the war, 42 Grand Slams had been dropped on active service.

Bielefeld, 14 March 1945
    The No. 617 Squadron RAF Avro Lancaster of Squadron Leader CC Calder dropped the first Grand Slam bomb from 11,965 ft (3,647 m) on the Bielefeld viaduct. More than 100 yards of the Bielefeld viaduct collapsed through the earthquake bomb effect of the Grand Slam and Tallboy bombs of No. 617 Squadron. No aircraft were lost.

http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/98/bielefeld_schildescher_viadukt_1.jpg

Schildescher Viadukt, Bielefeld, aerial image, May 1945.

[hslan.Lord Helmchen]

Rommel inspecting seveal of his "asparagus" at atlantic's wall, April 1944.

Intersting sidenote: After the successfull invasion, the americans used to dig out these asparagus in order to get the steelpipes in which the woodcotters were planted and should prevent the construction from rotting. With these steelparts they constructed the tines (to be known as culin cutters") which were fit to the so called "Sherman Rhinoceros".

[MaJ.P.Bouras]

German(?) tank hit by the Greek Artillery.Greek arty had only one enemy.Air force.Everything else was just being annihilated by it.




This I find quite amusing:
"Week after week, as truck loads of Greek soldiers rattled to the front with flowers behind their ears, singing mighty songs, Europe cheered. In Switzerland, the gendarmes are busy posting signs along their border with Italy, on which they write: Greeks. Stop here; this is Swiss territory".
(C.L. Sulzberger, American War Correspondent 1940)

and a funny pic : http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t96/panos1980/03b.jpg

[Flippy Warbear]

Greeks had artillery? 

[Ts4EVER]

Looks like a french tank. If that picture was indeed taken in Greece I would say it was during the occupation, as German second line units often used french tanks. Perhaps it was taken out by Partisans?

[hslan.Lord Helmchen]

with a lot of fantasy it coul also be a panzer 35 or 38(t)

[Ciupita]

for me it looks like FT-17. Did Bulgarians use them?

[MaJ.P.Bouras]

Greeks had artillery?  

cant post them as i have posted for today

http://www.polished-pixels.com/greece/pictures/1940-4.jpg

http://greekmilitary.net/WW2/2000178991183180685_rs.jpg

http://greekmilitary.net/WW2/2003130509988667281_rs.jpg

http://greekmilitary.net/WW2/2002460842368644590_rs.jpg

http://greekmilitary.net/WW2/2003511512806864962_rs.jpg

http://greekmilitary.net/WW2/2003834417547701641_rs.jpg

Greeks had the one of best artillery regiments.Because the country was poor in resources back then (and now) so every shot had to count.

The tank must be a pz38t
http://alamosquadron.com/New_Folder3/ModelFiesta%2026/MF26%20Photos/MVC-011S.JPG