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The magnificent flying machines of WWII and their deadly payloads: Colourised images
Daily Mail ^ | 5 December 2017 | Kelly Mclaughlin

Posted on 12/07/2017 7:03:42 AM PST by mairdie

Striking images of fighter planes and bombs used during the Second World War have been brought into the twenty-first century after being expertly colourised.

The vivid colour images show crashed aircraft engulfed in flames, captured Nazi prototype planes, and military troops working to get jets and bombs into working condition.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: navalplanes; snipers; worldwarii
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To: mairdie
My sister has our father's silk map. He was a Squadron Commander of the 385th Bomb Group. Amazingly, I found this picture of him online this morning. He is the gentleman in the center:


21 posted on 12/07/2017 7:55:59 AM PST by Quilla
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To: mairdie

I believe that third photo is Lyudmilla Pavlichenko, Who with a Mosin Nagant, and later an SVT 40 had 309 registered kills.

CC


22 posted on 12/07/2017 8:03:01 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (It don't matter if your heart is in the right place, if at the same time your head is up your a$$)
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To: mairdie

Everyone in mom’s family back then was knitting sox for the men overseas.
One day they received a letter from a GI in which he had NOTHING good to say about the Red Cross, and told everyone to not donate ANYTHING to them.


23 posted on 12/07/2017 8:16:02 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: mairdie

Thank you


24 posted on 12/07/2017 8:17:05 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: mairdie

Looks straight out of “The Dawns Here Are Quiet.”


25 posted on 12/07/2017 8:19:29 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: mairdie

Thanks for the post.


26 posted on 12/07/2017 8:39:14 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: dfwgator
Around 1923 my grandfather used to write newspaper stories about the World War I flies who came home and flew the new air postal service. Pictures link to the articles, with transcriptions.








27 posted on 12/07/2017 8:44:03 AM PST by mairdie
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the ping. Very nice photos with great colorization.


28 posted on 12/07/2017 8:54:20 AM PST by zot
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To: adaven

I’ve gotten so used to the idiocy of the Daily Mail writers that I didn’t even see it. And you’re right, of course. We should always notice what our education system has done to the next generation.


29 posted on 12/07/2017 8:56:19 AM PST by mairdie
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To: goodnesswins

My father served there in the early twenties. From his book “Old Soldiers’ Drums.”

ASAWA NI AKO

(A Song for All the Little Sunshines)

In the outskirts of Manila
In the barrio called Pasay
The soldiers used to bogao
Just the same as you and I.
The dalagas used to gather
By the banyan near the pool
Where the carabao used to wallow
And the behos used to drool.
It was there that first I met her;
Anacleto was her name;
Dark she was, her hair was darker;
Where she used to search for game.
Four feet tall in red chinelas
When she wasn’t squatted down
And she coyly shook the dirt off
Of her peso cotton gown.
But I left her there forever
For I couldn’t stand the strain.
Thank gawd! I left Manila
And my GuGu wife or twain! Adios!

******

OUTCASTS

Outcast men of the world are we,
Sunk in the depths of iniquity
Detested by all and loved by none.
A blot on the face of the kindly sun.
Men of training and breeding and birth
Who knew full well what the game was worth
Who played their hands — and lost —
— and then
Lost themselves from the world of men.

We hid ourselves in the Island world
Where the flashing coils of the “Snake” are curled
We sought the depths to hide our shame.
The “thing” we had made of an honored name.
We swam the Bay in the early dawn
But the Shark came not, and we lived on.
We sought the end in the bolo’s steel
But hearts wounds live, while flesh wounds heal.

We went unarmed to the Moro’s “jil”
But they called us “mad” and they would not kill.
And the Padre came with his tale of Grace
But we knew better, and laughed in his face.

We twined our hearts in a woman’s hair
Then tried to forget in the din and glare
Of a “tienda down on the opal bay
Where many men come and some men stay.

We lost ourselves in the Army then,
Our identity merely “Enlisted Men”
But in the dusk, when the shadows start to crawl
In their weird, wild dance on the barracks wall
A ghastly pageant that comes to stir
Our memory again to what we were
And we bow our heads and stifle a cry
For we don’t know how and we’ll never know why.


30 posted on 12/07/2017 9:01:00 AM PST by mairdie
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To: Quilla; goodnesswins; Army Air Corps

Your picture is absolutely priceless. I am so deeply happy that you found this today.

What I mostly remember about Lyn’s map was the incredible feel of the silk and the detail they were able to get printing on such closely woven fabric.


31 posted on 12/07/2017 9:03:46 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

Put me on.


32 posted on 12/07/2017 9:09:30 AM PST by topspinr
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To: topspinr

Done.


33 posted on 12/07/2017 9:56:56 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie
What an incredibly kind reply. Thank you for posting.


34 posted on 12/07/2017 1:41:31 PM PST by Quilla
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To: Quilla

Always, Quilla. It felt so good to see your post.

It would be wonderful if someone knowledgeable about planes could guess what he was probably demonstrating to his friends. Something about attitude, I would imagine, but the lower hand confuses me.


35 posted on 12/07/2017 1:57:29 PM PST by mairdie
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To: QualityMan

Thank you and please add me to your ping list.


36 posted on 12/07/2017 2:16:56 PM PST by OldLurker (D.R.I.P. "Don't Re-elect Incumbent Politicians" Join Now, No Dues, No Registration)
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To: mairdie

about hand position..

Pilots use that to explain maneuvers
Showing positions of the aircraft
and recreate encounters with the
Enemy.


37 posted on 12/07/2017 8:57:02 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: mairdie

38 posted on 12/07/2017 9:45:55 PM PST by Pilsner
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To: Pilsner

What is the story of an X-wing fighter on a WWII carrier?


39 posted on 12/07/2017 9:55:21 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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