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Kitlinx has the Tamiya Spitfire I next Wednesday - $36 ($34 if you join and sign up)
Sprue says next week.
LHS says local hobby shops will have it the week after Christmas. (If you have a LHS, the standard price will [...]
On 14th December, 1931, Douglas Bader crashed his Bristol Bulldog while executing a roll at ‘naught feet’ in response to a dare. In the first photo below his shoes can clearly be seen in the foreground of the devastated Bulldog. He [...]
Astronauts Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, two of the three-man crew of Apollo 17, were the last men to walk on the Moon on December 13, 1972. Commander Cernan made a brief speech before boarding the module, saying: “We leave as we came [...]
Amazing photo of Task Group 38.3 entering Ulithi atoll on December 12th, 1944. From foreground to back, the ships are;
USS Langley (CV-27)
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)
USS Washington (BB-56)
USS North Carolina (BB-55)
USS South Dakota [...]
Cannot resist an opportunity to squeeze in a photo of the Enterprise, seen here entering Pearl Harbour on Dec 11th, ‘43, before heading back to the Marshall Islands. This was a few months into what would become a 560 consecutive day [...]
The Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by repeated attacks from Mitsubishi GM3’s (‘Nell’) and GM4’s (‘Betty’) torpedo bombers. 840 men died in total.
A report from the London [...]
Despite losing almost half of his port wing to a Chinese fighter plane (possibly a collision with another Japanese fighter), pilot Kanichi Kashimura was able to nurse his Claude (Mitsubishi A5M) 450 miles to the north to safely land (after [...]
Lt. Commander Donald Shepard fires a flaming arrow at a Viet Cong bunker disguised as a bamboo hut, December 8th, 1967.
The ‘Third Fleet’ carriers at anchor in Ulithi Atoll, 8 December 1944, during a break from operations in the [...]
There can only be one subject on December 7th, a “day that will live in infamy”.
USS Arizona.
USS Shaw (two photos, below)
USS West Virginia
USS California
USS Nevada
USS Pennsylvania (with USS Downes and USS Cassin in the [...]
Although there have been a few images that have been difficult to post on this series, today’s is especially so. Many of the photos have shown crews just before their deaths, people before and after their execution, or before performing [...]
