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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Kommandant on October 27, 2003, 03:29:47 AM

Title: Whats this?
Post by: Kommandant on October 27, 2003, 03:29:47 AM

Ok, Sorry Brady... but I am gonna just put up a couple of pics here and ask peeps what they are. Not trying to capitolize on your idea, just trying to get in more posts.

(http://www.militarymuseum.org/Resources/USS%20California%20Late%20WWII.jpg)
This?

(http://museum.nist.gov/panels/gallery/WWIIC.jpg)
And until today, I had never seen this before.

Title: Whats this?
Post by: Bodhi on October 27, 2003, 06:58:35 AM

#1 pic

A goofy looking camo job on a nazi ship?

#2 pic

PB4Y carrying an early guided bomb.

Title: Whats this?
Post by: frank3 on October 27, 2003, 07:04:34 AM

first one must be the HMS Flower (:lol )
second one, B24 with, yes, guided bomb/rocket

Title: Whats this?
Post by: Charon on October 27, 2003, 09:48:53 AM

1. USS California (maybe Tennessee) after modernization in late WW2.

2. The Bat Radar guided glide bomb, the first fire and forget weapon in the category. It is credited with sinking a destroyer and a number of transports in the last year of the war.

Charon