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[MIGUEL]

Pilot and co-pilot in the cockpit of their No. 149 RAF Squadron Wellington bomber, probably at RAF Mildenhall in 1941. The pilot is David Donaldson, who was promoted to Wing Commander in 1943 at the age of 28.

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[MIGUEL]

RAF Vickers Wellington bomber pilots - Note the frost on top of the canopy!

 

[MIGUEL]

Nose gunner in the cramped conditions of the Frazier-Nash front turret of the Vickers Wellington bomber, with it's two .303 machine guns

 

[MIGUEL]

Johnny Johnson (Wing Commander James E Johnson) The top RAF fighter ace, shooting down 38 German planes. Seen here with his pet labrador Sally - Battle of Britain 1940

 

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Col. Jeannie Leavitt - First F-15 female fighter pilot, now breaking another barrier as she is the first-ever female to lead Seymour Johnson Air Force Base’s storied 4th Fighter Wing out of North Carolina. Now THIS is a role model for our younger contemporaries! She's a wife, mother, and career woman with an impossibly cool job. Yes, you CAN have it all!

 

[BIGUA82]

aparte de extensiones a las espoletas para aumentar el efecto antipersonal tienen esas bombas las "trompetas de jericho" adosadas a las aletas (como tubos de órganos) que hacían un chillido desmoralizante.

Fepago
Sin "Trompetas de Jerichó" ,solo con los suplementos para las espoletas SSQ.

 

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Fepago
Sin "Trompetas de Jerichó" ,solo con los suplementos para las espoletas SSQ.

los anglosajones le dicen "Daisy Cutters" a las bombas con esas extensiones.

aca se ve mejor "las trompetas" en un a bomba alemana.



en este se ven como se colocaban las en las aletas:

 

[Shandor]

Roswell was not aliens – it was the Nazis, according to a German documentary

 

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The B-29 Keebird was also discovered abandoned on the ice.

 

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Adolf Galland ,Wolfram von Richthofen y al fondo Alexander Lohr

 

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Quien es este personaje en esta foto de la WWI

 

[Shandor]

La Bomba de Hiroshima. En la imagen se puede observar el antes y el después de la bomba atómica caída en Hiroshima y el rastro de destrucción que esta dejó. La bomba de hiroshima junto con la de Nagasaki fueron las dos únicas bombas atómicas de la historia utilizadas en una guerra.

 

[BIGUA82]

Muy buenas tardes....
P-51

P-51 5-inch rockets, Iwo Jima

P-51s, Iwo Jima

P-40

P-26s and B-18s at Hickam Fld, Hawaii 1940

Devastators on Yorktown, San Diego, June 1940

Catalinas, NAS Sangley Point, Philippines 1940

Catalina

B-17s, Marshall Fld, California, early 1941

A-24 Banshee, 1941

Kingfisher preparing for recovery on USS Arizona, Hawaii Sept 1941

The observer hooks the hoist

B-24 vs Iwo Jima

P-51 at Guam

P-43 Lancer at Langley Fld, Virginia 1941

Helicopter at Iwo Jima March 1945 (toda una novedad el helicóptero)

B-24 vs Chichi Jima

B-24s, Pacific

P-51 on Iwo Jima after Tokyo escort mission

B-24 over Jap-held Iwo Jima

Ford Island, Pearl Harbor Nov 10th 1941.
Lexington at bottom, battleships at top left, aircraft parked at top right-

B-18 Digby ditched with engine failure at Dover, Newfoundland, crew rescued unhurt

Wildcat pilot Ens. Gayle Hermann, USS Saratoga Oct 1941

 

[TORDO79]

Adolf Galland ,Wolfram von Richthofen y al fondo Alexander Lohr

Adolf, vecino del barrio hace muuuchos años....

 

[fepago]

Quien es este personaje en esta foto de la WWI

Goering

 

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[Shandor]

Heinkel HE-115

 

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[Shandor]

izq.Nowotny "nowi" con su ala Karl Schnorrer
Nowotny el 5º AS con 258 derribos antes de caer al mando de 4 ME- 262, contra 20 P -51

 

[Shandor]

En la parte baja de la foto volaban razantes sobre el agua los JU- 52, siendo atacados por los B-25 y P-38, en total se perdieron 25 aparatos.