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Offline oneway

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Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« on: July 26, 2011, 06:26:58 PM »
Salute AH History Buffs...

These images were sent via normal email to me by an AH player.

I will host them so you history guys can grab them...

Also...here is a link to a zip pak of the entire group (21 images)...for an easy grab

Enjoy

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http:www.cadframers.com/ah/kpics/kpics.zip


Japanese Kawanishi H8K seaplane after straifing. Kwajalein


Squad of Rufe's at Bougainville.


A6M2-N float plane version of the Zero


Snow on deck. USS Philippine Sea North Pacific 1945
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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2011, 06:29:32 PM »

HARVS on the way - shot by a P-47. Rare shot.


Deck crew climbing up to get the pilot out. He did. That’s a fuel tank his foot is on. Empty?


Marines disembark LST at Tinian Island.  


Bougainville.  
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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2011, 06:30:10 PM »

Guam


Outside Bastonge


German 280mm K5 firing


U.S. munitions ship goes up during the invasion of Sicily
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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2011, 06:32:12 PM »

German V1



Spitfire "tipping-off" a V1. If you've never heard of this insane tactic ....

At first V1's were shot down by gunfire. Optimum range was inside 200yds, which was marginal for survival. Many planes were damaged and quite a few pilots killed. Basically at such high speed and low altitude a plane had to fly though the explosion and hope.

 
With the high risk of being blown up some of the best pilots started tipping the V1's wing, because of damage to wing tips they later developed a tactic of disrupting the aitflow by placing their wing very close to the V1's wing, causing it to topple.

Not every pilot did this. At night this was not possible, the flame from the V1 blinded the pilot to everything else, though some Mossie pilots flew past closely in front of the V1, again causing it to topple. The thought of doing this at 450mph, 4,000 feet above the ground, at night and being blinded gives me the willies.



Panzerkampfwagen VI "E Tiger"  


Ju 88  Float Equipped loading a torpedo.


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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2011, 06:33:41 PM »

German "KARL" motars. Sebastopol


Reloading a KARL


KARL Firiing


Italian Macchi 202v


Italian 303 Bombers over N Africa  
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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2011, 06:38:17 PM »
great pic's thanks for sharing  :aok  In the buzz bomb pic's is that a wing tap to turn it off course??
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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2011, 06:47:12 PM »
great pic's thanks for sharing  :aok  In the buzz bomb pic's is that a wing tap to turn it off course??

Yes I just added text to the images that came with email

Read through it again


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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2011, 06:55:37 PM »
I read about them doing that, a while ago never saw a pic tho thanks for posting, they had some big ball's doing that.  :salute

Yes I just added text to the images that came with email

Read through it again


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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2011, 07:07:01 PM »
The Officers Club seemed the logical place to post this...but it is not the perfect place...

What the BBS lacks is WW2 Historical forum for posting images and discussing history of machines, equipment, battles etc

Maybe Skuzzy can warp HiTech into adding another forum explicitly dedicated to the discussion of historical content

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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2011, 07:21:00 PM »
Great pics - thought those Italian planes were SM.79s though?
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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2011, 07:23:29 PM »
Salute AH History Buffs...

These images were sent via normal email to me by an AH player.

I will host them so you history guys can grab them...

Also...here is a link to a zip pak of the entire group (21 images)...for an easy grab

Enjoy

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Oneway


This image is not from 1945.. This photo dates to 1950 or later as there are AD Skyraiders on deck and the Skyraider was certainly post war. This is a Korean War photo.

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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2011, 07:26:30 PM »
Great pics - thought those Italian planes were SM.79s though?

They are....
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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2011, 07:29:31 PM »
Easy guys...

If you have issues keep it clean

I simply got this set of images in an email

Perhaps I should check with Wild Wing before hosting the images and posting them out?

Take a breather and temper your come backs


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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2011, 07:35:14 PM »
This is not a Ju88, but a Heinkel 115...



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Re: Great set of pics WW2 aircraft: (Warning) Image intensive
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2011, 07:45:01 PM »
Seems like whoever sent these emails need some research to do. Great photos tho
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