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Lt. Samuel ‘Ted’ Hutchins of Port Charlotte, Florida, climbs out of his Chance-Vought Kingfisher as it is hauled back aboard the USS South Dakota (blow) on January 22nd, 1945. Hutchins rescued Ensign Stark (seen in the rear cockpit) [...]
19th January 1915: The Imperial Germany Navy airship ‘L3’, under command of Captain Hans Fritz and Leutnant zur See v. Lynckner, departed Hamburg, Germany, at 11:00 a.m., in company with two other Zeppelins (‘L4 and ‘L6’) on a [...]
18th January, 1945. British Carrier-Borne F6F with deck crew on some sunbathing duties. Japanese Occupied Sumatra, Indonesia in the Pacific. This image was subject to restricted information but thought to be part of a strike force against [...]
ICM just released their 2019 catalogue, and it features these gems:
48281 - B-26B-50 Invader, Korean War American Bomber
48282 - A-26B-15 Invader, WWII American Bomber
With the Monogram kit a bit long in the tooth, and the MustHave! Models [...]
On January 17th, the iconic battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) got stuck at the entrance to Maryland's Chesapeake Bay after running aground on the shoals, and was stuck for two weeks. The ship would finally be freed on the first of February, [...]
Once again it is time for our monthly retrospective - a look back at some of the notable articles posted at this site during December.
This was a month with some incredible entires - and our community added another 250 new articles to [...]
On January 16th, 1945, 2nd Lt. Sam McMillan was flying P-51, ‘Evalina’ (the Mustang was actually the mount of 1st Lt. Oliver Strawbridge, ‘Evalina’ being his girlfriend) when he was hit by AA Flak and landed at the Japanese-held [...]
Lt Fred Eberle of the USAAF 333rd Fighter Squadron nursing his damaged P-38 Lighting (appropriately named ‘Ripper’) back to Saipan after receiving battle damage (note starboard wing) over Iwo Jima on 15 January , 1945. The image was [...]
On January 14th, 1969 the USS Enterprise was rocked by a series of explosions off the coast of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A fire broke out when a ‘Zuni’ rocket attached to an F4 Phantom aircraft detonated, starting a domino effect of [...]
B17-G Flying Fortress (42-31604) ditched in Loch Quoich, Western Scotland on 13th January 1944. The aircraft was on a transatlantic ferry flight from Goose Bay, Canada to Nutts Corner (Northern Ireland) when, 600 miles off the Scottish [...]
