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My profile is a picture of an IL-2M (early variant)
I use it because I am an aviation enthusiast, and have had the honour to fly an IL-2.
I am also of Russian descent, and have some grandparents who fought in the war on the Eastern Front.
There is also a Panzer-type tank in the foreground, which highlights the fact that there were 2 sides in WW2, not just 'us' and 'them'.

 

VF-11 Sun Downers, this the 1942-1943 version, blue grey instead of dark blue. This, BTW, is a crop of a photo of the insignia as painted on a panel of a squadron F4F.

 

I don't even remember what my old Avatar was. The new one is just me. I moved to Arizona six months ago and like to sit on the veranda and shoot various military weaponry into the desert. I've got steel plates at various ranges. I like to hear the "ping" of bullets striking steel.

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Mine is a plaque on a bridge in Maastricht:
Plaque Old Hickory Sint-Servaasbrug
(Netherlands, the - Limburg - Maastricht)

The memorial plaque was placed near the stairs to the Strekdam between the Sint-Servaas bridge and the Wilhelmina bridge in Maastricht.

The text on the monument is as following:
'OLD HICKORY
IN HONOR OF THE 117TH INF. REG.
OF THE 30TH INFANTERY DIVISION
13-14 SEPT. 1944'.

The plaque for the 'Old Hickory Division' is there to remind the citizens of Maastricht of the liberation of the city on the 13th and 14th of September 1944 by the American troops of the 30th Infantry Division.

 

Owners manual and extra cobras for the 1969 Shelby GT-500 K.R. Rich A. in Pa.

 

a flag my dad had, now I have it, with the USMC emblem, Korean flag, US flag, etc...not very great artistic quality, but that's what makes it special...date and place of origin not remembered ..I'll ask him again later......

 

Mine is a portrait taken during the war of the veteran that I met that I helped find the name of the concentration camp he liberated, Eddie Geiser.

 

My current avatar is the USS Washington firing on the IJN Battleship Kirishima during the Battle off Guadalcanal(Nov 14th-15th '42).

 

My current avatar is an M-10 tank destroyer of the 776th TD Bn somewhere in North Africa. I modified it from grayscale to B&W to create an interesting effect.

 

My son sitting in a flying WW2 Spitfire at RAF Colerne in his Flight Lieutenant RAF Flying suit and hat.

 

Avatar inspirations are always genuinely interesting. Mine is my desired look after my gender transition is complete.

@Otto
When will you change that plastic armyman avatar? You've had it for years and it's getting old, freshen up!

 

Cake? Still.
Maybe time for a change.

 

Mine is a elevated bow view of the USS Texas at her mooring on the Houston Ship Channel next to the San Jacinto battle site.

 

My Current Avatar, is WO Abolqasem Azadnaam "ابوالقاسم آزاد نام" .

more info about him:

DoB: 1954 - Garoos, Bijar, Kurdistan Province, Iran.

Intered Army as Helicopter Pilot : 1973 as Cobra Pilot

Became Prisoner of War: 27 Apr. 1987 - Outskirts of Town of Mavoot, Iraq

Killed in Captivity: ???

Listed as Missing in Action: 30 Nov. 2003

Confirmed as Killed in Action: 12 Jan. 2004

Posthomusly promoted to the rank of MajorGeneral: 17 Apr. 2004

 

a WW2 era photo ???

or after ???

nice photo, Anyway.

 

A picture of my father taken in February, 1944 near Grottaglia, Italy. He went to visit his brother.

 

It's a modern photo taken after her last refit in the last 20 years. Sadly they may fill in the mooring to protect the hull which has had to be repaired since she was demobilized after WWII. Hate to see that, but may be the only way to preserve her long term in this climate.