Picture of the day. (3 Viewers)

[GrauGeist]

German soldiers inspect the wreckage of a U.S. glider: Normandy, France, June 1944.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man, Glider pilots really have a huge pair of <bleeps>!

 

[GrauGeist]

Huevos the size of bowling balls, you meant?

 

[Capt. Vick]

No doubt

 

[Airframes]

Yeah, imagine your reaction if someone said "Take this canvas and ply covered covered glider, with a heavy field gun or Jeep strapped behind you, fly it through some flak, and land it in that field".
In the average reply, the second word would be 'Off'!!

 

[Njaco]

Yeah, imagine your reaction if someone said "Take this canvas and ply covered covered glider, with a heavy field gun or Jeep strapped behind you, fly it through some flak, and land it in that field".
In the average reply, the second word would be 'Off'!!

"Oh, and you have to do that at night with no running lights!"

 

[GrauGeist]

Soviet experiments in "water delivery" of the T-37 Amphibious light tank.

The idea was to deliver the tank by air from a TB-3 and a series of tests were done to see if aerial delivery would be an option for fast deployment of the tank to forward positions.

It didn't work.

 

[Airframes]

"Hey, Ivan, do you know a bloke called Barnesevich Walliski ?"

 

[Njaco]

So they used an airplane.......

to deliver a tank......

in water....

.

 

[yulzari]

Yeah, imagine your reaction if someone said "Take this canvas and ply covered covered glider, with a heavy field gun or Jeep strapped behind you, fly it through some flak, and land it in that field".
In the average reply, the second word would be 'Off'!!

Oh yes, and after that you can fight as an infantry soldier as you have nothing else to do......

 

[fastmongrel]

HMS Campbeltown (ex USS Buchanan) wedged into the dry dock gates at St Nazaire. Very soon the fuses are going to light up 4.5 tons of Amatol.

 

[vikingBerserker]

A classic pic!

 

[fastmongrel]

 

[GrauGeist]

A PzKfw Mk IV that seems to have suffered a little damage...

 

[yulzari]

A PzKfw Mk IV that seems to have suffered a little damage...

The PzKfw Mk IV passes it's turret ring integrity test......

 

[yulzari]

 

[Glider]

Man, Glider pilots really have a huge pair of <bleeps>!

I wish that were true

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice one of the Wimpey.

 

[GrauGeist]

Tiger 105 of 501sSSPzAbt, commanded by OberSturmfuhrer Wessel, became disabled after it crashed through a building and the wall fell down upon it, during the street battle in Stavelot.