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I thought some of these were a bit unusual. Hope you enjoy them.
Pic 1 - Kawanishi H8K seaplane
Pic 2 - Squadron of Rufe's at Bougainville
Pic 3 - Corsair's in the snow on the USS Philippine Sea
Pic 4 - Rockets fired by a P-47
Pic 5 - Deck crew to the rescue
Pic 6 - Marines disembark on Tinian
Pic 7 - Tank on Bougainville
Pic 8 - German 280mm K5
Pic 9 - U.S. munitions ship explodes during Sicily invasion
Pic 10 - V1
Pic 11 - Ju-88 with torpedo
Pic 12 - German KARL mortars
Pic 13 - Reloading a KARL
Not a Ju-88, He-115 I think.
Those are some good pics and thanks for posting them. I do believe the young man is right on that being a He-115; I don't think I've seen that clear of a picture of one with such good detail showing ordinance being loaded and that many crew working on it.
My favorite has got to be pic #5 in the first post. When that F6F landed a nd slid off the edge of the deck it must have been burning furiously...but that crewman jumped right on there. I saw this photo yesterday in an aviation book but it was much darker and some of these details of this photo are missing. If I might add; this is the caption for the photo:
This book has had some inaccurate details so i hope this is the correct identifcation for that photo #5 in your first post.This F6F Hellcat crash-landed on the deck of the USS Enterprise and the catapult officer, Lt. Walter Chewning, climbed up the side of the fuselage to drag the pilot, Ensign Bryon Johnson, to safety.
Thanks for posting these!
Derek
Thanks for the correction. Your both right. He-115 for sure.
Very cool pics!
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Diddy
Nice shots!
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Thor, the pic "Corsair's in the snow on the USS Philippine Sea" might be from the Korean War. The marking on the fuselage was adopted in 1947 (I think).
Also I can never remmber any carrier operations in the snow in all of the Pacific War.
Pics are very interesting though.
TO
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He-115 is by far my favorite~ !
Very interesting Thor.Some of those I have seen some I haven't. Thank you for sharing sir.
The snow-bound Corsairs are definitely in Korea, as well and the markings and colour-schemes, the give-away is that the middle row of a/c are SkyraidersGreat shots Thor, thanks for sharing them!
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Great pics.
I don't know why, but when I saw the Rufe's I instandly thought of an old western saloon with the horses tied up out front.
Thats an interesting take on it....
Love the Rufes on Bougainville and the rockets from the P-47. Cool shots.
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