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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.
A sumptuous photograph of a Spitfire Mk VB of the 92nd RAF Squadron flying over Kent in May 19th 1941.
Their emblem with the motto, ‘Fight or Die’.
The Bismarck at sea, seen from the Prinz Eugen On the 19th of May, 1941.
F4U-4 [...]
Two British soldiers run the rule over a knocked out Sturmgeschütz 75mm Stu.k
In Aquino, Italy, 1944.
1916 – on May 18th, Kiffin Yates Rockwell becomes the first American to claim an air victory when he shoots down a German plane [...]
The crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress ‘Memphis Belle’ is shown at an air base in England after completing 25 missions over enemy territory on May 17, 1943.
They are, left to right:
Tech. Sgt. Harold P. Loch of Green Bay, Wis., (top [...]
I can’t think of any better way of trying to capture the story of the Dambusters than just letting Guy Gibson himself describe the critical moments of that that famous raid on May 16th, 1943...
“Terry turned on the spotlights and [...]
Squadron Leader Edward ‘Jack’ Charles (commander of No 611 Squadron) chalks up the Biggin Hill Sector’s 1,000th downed enemy aircraft, following a successful sweep over Normandy on 15th of May, 1943.
Charles shot down two FW190s, [...]
Beautifully shot image of US tanks of the 755th Battalion, awaiting the call to enter Coreno Ausonio, near Lazio, Italy, on the day of the town’s capture, May the 14th, 1944.
Rarely photographed Focke Achgelis Fa223 ‘heli-thing’ on [...]
On May 13th Ken Walsh of VMF-124 became the first Corsair ‘ace’.
Later that year he received the Medal of Honor. Citation below...
CITATION:
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in [...]
Salvage crews working on a Junkers Ju 88, brought down during the the Luftwaffe’s attacks on RAF airfields in France on 10th May, photo taken 12th of May 1940.
Hurricanes of British No. 237 (Rhodesian) Squadron RAF in the Middle East, [...]
Only in England...part one. In one of the more unusual ‘OTD...’ entries, two London firemen practice evacuation of animals in London Zoo in the event of being bombed; May 11th, 1940.
The Battle of Attu was the only land battle fought [...]
A definite theme running through the thread today.
Hill 937, so named because it is 937 metres above sea level, was the setting of a 10-day battle between US forces and the North Vietnamese beginning on 10th of May, 1969.
Better known [...]
