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Professional psychologist, father of four, musician, modeler, lecturer. Tired.
My modeling defaults are building dioramas and WWII aircraft. Enjoy WW2 history, reading, single malt scotch whisky (without the 'e'), music, good food, bit of philosophy, and general history.
While collecting files for the ‘On This Day...’ series I have frequently came across photos of aircraft who, for different reasons, landed on the wrong carrier. Tradition dictates that the offending pilot’s ride gets a new coat of [...]
‘Sturmtiger’ captured by allies in France, 28th February 1945.
The Sturmtiger was a essentially the marriage of a German Navy project intended to fire depth charges from shore positions at enemy submarines and a tank chassis.
The [...]
The iconic twin body Mustang, ‘Betty Jo’ took off from Honolulu on February 27th,1947 and flew almost 5,000 non-stop to New York City in 14 hours and 33 minutes.
Messerschmitt 110 (ZG1) shot down by anti-aircraft fire on 27 [...]
There’s no substitute for experience. On 26th February, 2012 the North American P-51 known as ‘The Brat III’ (owned and operated at considerable expense by the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Dallas) found itself circling above Mobile, [...]
US. Ensign Ardon Rector Ives personifies grace under pressure as he appears calm and focused unbuckling himself from an inferno engulfing his (appropriatey enough) Hellcat. of VF-9 fighter carrier group.
Ardon Ives was KIA in a dogfight [...]
These first three photos were taken in an English scrapyard, full of Luftwaffe wrecks, on February 24th, 1942.
Valentine Mk III tank of ‘A’ Division (17/21st Lancers) which was captured during Operation Torch in November 1942 and [...]
I was minded to post just this one image today with no narrative. Joe Rosenthal’s iconic and Pulitzer Prize winning image has few peers. Far from being staged (it wasn’t), Rosenthal almost missed the moment and was not even looking [...]
RAF Air Transport Auxilliary ferry pilot, Veronica, sits in her Spitfire, February 22nd, 1943.
Four caskets containing 22nd Marines, Parry Island, Eniwetok, February 22nd, 1944.
22nd February 1944. A TBM Avenger flies over Tinian [...]
In the town of Rath, during Operation ‘Grenade’, the plan for the 9th Army to cross the Roer in Rhineland, Germany. The Ninth Army was finally able to cross the river on 23 February, by which time other Allied forces were also close [...]
On February 20, 1942, Lt. Edward O’Hare took off from the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in a raid against the Japanese at Rabaul and landed as America’s first flying ‘ace’. Rabaul, a small town at the very Northern tip of New [...]
