Cool pix!

"HMS Arethusa, the 'Intermediate cruiser', off Charleston, South Carolina, 11 December 1943 [2797 x 1341]."

 

"[2773 x 1951]USS Arnold J. Isbell (DD-869) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Sept 26, 1950."

 

"A rare formation of three Lockheed P-38 Lightnings performs at the 2018 Planes of Fame Airshow held in Chino, California May 5-6, 2018. Photo credit to Norman Graf."

 

"It’s the Spitfire’s 85th birthday! Captain Joseph Summers flew the first prototype on this day in 1936. R. J. Mitchell’s famous design became the symbol of the British resistance in WWII."

 

"1941 Douglas A-26 Invader NL26BP During WWII this aircraft served with the USAAF as 439359. Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019. Photo credit Christopher Murkin [3783x1778]."

 

"Capt Andrew D. Turner and another pilot of both who’re apart of the 332nd Fighter Group (The Tuskegee Airmen) discuss combat flying. Behind Turner’s P-51C Mustang named “Skipper’s Darlin’” behind them is on the steel matte of Ramitelli."

 

"Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 jet bomber [1242x907]."

 

"Sherman with crew."

 

"HMS Barham (British battleship, 1915) At Scapa Flow, 1917, with other battleships and cruisers of the Grand Fleet. [5504x3450]"

 

"Tiger 131 with StuG III."

 

"A Sherman ‘Firefly’ of C Squadron, 'The Staffordshire Yeomanry', 27th Armoured Brigade north of Caen, Normandy, June 9th 1944."

 

"rotorcraft, ka-22, 1960s soviet union 1000x666."

 

"Pilots of No. 245 Squadron RAF walk past their Hawker Typhoon Mark IBs to their dispersal hut at Westhampnett, Sussex, on completion of a sortie against a flying-bomb launching site in northern France, October 1943. Photo: Imperial War Museum, Colour by: Doug Colourising History"

 

"Vietnam War. 1968. A Centurion Mk V/1 tank of C Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment (1AR), Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), provides support to the troops on an operation. (637 x 654)"

 

"The XP-79 Flying Ram from Northrop. Designed to slice through other planes it's guns were only for defence until it could get into ramming range. Harry Crosby died during the maiden flight when the plane went out of control, he ejected but the plane struck him while falling. [1753x1120]"

 

"French pilots of the 326 and 328 squadron in Corsica, 1944 , they were under the direct control of the American 322 wing."

 

"Battleship HMS Prince of Wales on her sea trials, 8 May 1941. [1021 x 3022]"

 

"Karl-Gerat which is a german self-propelled siege mortar used during WW2. Only 7 was produced. Only 6 of them used during attacking soviet fortresses of Brest-litovsk and Sevastopol, bombarded Polish resistance fighters in Warsaw. Its biggest ammunition was a 60 cm diameter, 2,170kg shell."