Misc Images

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

Steel rain!

[_AH_Autorotate]

Reminds me of an AH fly-in ..  (glasses) (glasses)

[_AH_DarkWolf]

Those are some war weary looking birds, must be destined for the scrap yard?

DW

[_AH_z5o]

this is good for a giggle

"No. No! NO!!!" - The Greatest Scare Prank

[_AH_taldrg]

~S~ The planes are all PBYs except for one lone biplane. The Navy is sending them to japan for relief from their big wave.

  TD

[_AH_Jack]

It also appears that there are 18 Wildcats scattered about the deck; most tucked under the wing of a Catalina.  Of course, they could be Hellcats, but I doubt it.

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

I bet DW can identify them by the paint scheme, white ring on the cowling and white stripes on the stab.

dB

[_AH_DarkWolf]

They appear to be hellcats, looks like they have curved ends to the horizontal stabilizers whereas the wildcats are more squared off. The markings are strange, I'm not familiar with nose bands on hellcats other than the yellow ones used briefly in '45.

Couple captions for this photo found on the net :

"The escort carrier Thetis Bay (CVE 90) pictured underway transporting PBY Catalinas and other aircraft in need of repair to Alameda,CA. July 8,1944
(U.S. Navy photo)"

"The U.S. escort carrier USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90)enroute to NAS Alameda, California with a deckload of war-weary planes in 1944. The planes visible on deck are eight Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats, 18 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters, and a Grumman J2F "Duck" amphibious biplane."

DW

[HA_50]

To those wondering about the PPsh submachine guns . if you look closer there is no parachuting devices for that rack system. Also there is mounted below the port wing a tank. The tank appears to be a high pressure air tank. I would bet that those guns are attached to a pnuematic firing device to fire them in low level flight

[_AH_Autorotate]

moving right a long..

A Japanese aircraft carrier circling to evade attack by USAAF B-17s during the Battle of Midway in June of 1942

[_AH_Autorotate]

a standard AH P-40 landing after a perfectly flown mission. at least we can park good.

[_AH_Autorotate]

December 8th, 1944 - Third Fleet aircraft carriers at anchor in Ulithi Atoll during a break from operations in the Philippines area.
The carriers are, from front to back...
USS Wasp (CV-18)
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
USS Hornet (CV-12)
USS Hancock (CV-19)
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)



if you squint the dazzle camouflage schemes really trick the eye into making them look like smaller warships.

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

That P-40 pic brakes my heart.

[_AH_Autorotate]

That P-40 pic brakes my heart.

at least i didn't post this one...


whoops

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

Good Lord!............ Really?