Cool pix!

"[2487X1527] USS Milwaukee (C-21) is beached as a result of an attempt to rescue stranded submarine USS H-3. Samoa, CA, 13 January 1917."

 

"Soldiers of New Zealand’s 14th Infantry Brigade ; Fred Mazengarb (left), of Gisborne, NZ and William Elmiger, of Tearoha, NZ operate a mortar during the capture of the Green Islands northwest of Bougainville; February 1944. The islands were used for airfields to attack Rabaul on New Britain Island."

Take your damn picture so we can get back to work!

 

"Catalina PBY-5A G-PBYA 44-3915 "Miss Pick Up" at "The Victory Show" 2019, Cosby, England. Taken September 7, 2019. Photo credit to Stu Norris. [1600x1067]"

 

"The anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Curacoa, late 1942. She was a First World War-era ship re-armed with 4-inch guns, a Pom Pom mount and two HACS systems explicitly to enhance fleet air defence. [1816 x 1071]"

 

"Drawing of the British battleship HMS Monarch (1869), by Oscar Parkes. She was the first sea-going turret ship, the first British warship to mount 12-inch guns, and the fastest battleship of her day. [2681 x 1964]"

 

"P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II [1600x900]"

 

With the landing gear retracted they're a shade more graceful. Reminds me of a Canada goose in flight, or snow geese.

 

Oh but to watch a dozen( or a Hundred ! ) soar in unison is mesmerizing !

 

We'd get thousands in Illinois during the migrations. There was a Conservation Area near our house and it was a common occasion to see hundreds flying in groups. Looked like precision Aerobatics.

 

I got into a fist fight with one in Peru. Long story.

 

"While flying to the West Coast, one of the two engines of this Martin Mariner (PBM) seaplane malfunctioned over the Arizona desert, the pilot and crew safely landed on a dry lake with minor damage to the aircraft. The plane was subsequently dismantled and transported out of the desert."

 

"Colorized photo of a Messerschmitt Me 323 "Gigant" in flight (may be landing or taking off), Germany, 1942."

Next, a flying block of flats.