Cool pix!

That thing looks mean just sitting there !

 

Sorry, been shopping for bypasses. Regular service will resume tomorrow.

 

Hope you got a good deal !

 

Yep, won't cost me a dime, thank you taxpayers.

 

"German anti-aircraft gunner poses next to Sd.Kfz. 10/4, in a Soviet village. This is a late modification vehicle equipped with a 2 cm FlaK 38 anti-aircraft gun. Additional armor plates are installed on the halftrack to protect the driver's cab and radiator."

Dude reminds me of Mads Mikkelsen.

 

"The "four sisters" of Italian heavy cruisers moored at Naples, circa 1938. Left to right: GORIZIA, POLA, ZARA, and FIUME. One of the Italian Navy's training ships, AMERIGO VESPUCCI or CRISTOFORO COLOMBO, appears in the distance off to the right. [5749 × 2826]"

 

Best use of my taxes at work I can think of.

 

The atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan by the U.S. on August 9, 1945.

 

Actually, no.

 

Have I been duped by the Brit's ? Bloody hell!

Japan to compensate POW for anguish caused by Nagasaki bomb

 

The provenance is dubious, the cloud is the wrong shape, the gentlemen discussing the nuclear explosion just a few miles from them are way too casual, etc.

 

Look at the footage of Test Able at Bikini. Same bomb, produced before the war ended, and an air burst like Nagasaki. Very different. The smoke column should already be thousands of feet high.

AND the four people in the picture, three of whom aren't even looking at the "mushroom cloud", they're having a nice chat. The "shock wave" is cute.

 

"British mechanics assembling Buffalo fighters, Singapore, circa 12 August 1941."

Should call this thread "I did not know that!"

 

"If you guys are in the Northern VA area, do stop by the National Museum of The United States Army. Newly built and just opened. The museum covers the American Revolution to Present day Army. The exhibits are excellent! Their WW2 exhibit is the largest exhibit in the museum."

 

"This hydroplane is part of the R.A.F. rescue service in the Middle East. It operates on the lakes of the Nile Delta for the assistance of pilots who may make forced landings in the water."

 

"Grumman G-23 Goblins of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The Canadian Car and Foundry Co received a manufacturing license for the Grumman FF-1 "Fifi". They ended up building 52 aircraft, 34 of which were exported to Spain during it's civil war, while the rest served as fighters in Canada until 1942."

 

"P-40 Tomahawks ready to take off from the carrier USS Chenango off the coast of French North Africa; Operation Torch; Nov 1942. The P-40’s were from the 33rd USAAF Fighter Group and were transported on the Chenango to North Africa. The P-40’s will land at airfields recent captured by the Americans."