iModeler Photo Collections
New and historic photograph collections
A beautifully haunting memorial to two B-17 crews, one of which went down near Rocheville, France, on April 27th 1944. The Fortress took flak on left wing, caught fire and spun to the ground, crashing near Le Pont Durand, two miles S of [...]
26th April 1944, American Thunderbolt dive bombers, some carrying 500 lb bombs take off from an airfield in England.
Coastal Command Mosquitos pictured landing at their base in Scotland after a raid on Nazi shipping in the Norwegian [...]
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Hurricane Mk IIds of RAF 6 Squadron, Gabes, Tunisia.
These photos of the ‘Flying Tin Openers’ (tank busting squad, see emblem below) were all taken April 1943.
Soviet and US troops meet up across the river Elbe in Germany, April [...]
A pilot rests under his Gustav-2 between sorties in a Utti airfield, Finland, 1943.
USS Maryland (BB-46, ‘Old Mary’) and destroyers USS Hovey and USS Long in the Miraflores Locks while transiting the Panama Canal, 24th of April, [...]
Posted a similar view of carriers at rest in Puget Sound; here are slightly different ships. USS Essex, USS Ticonderoga, USS Yorktown, USS Lexington, USS Bunker Hill, and and USS Bon Homme Richard at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in [...]
US soldiers inspect an abandoned Sturmtiger of Sturmtiger-Morser-Batterie 1002, near Caleb, Germany, April, 1945.
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Spitfire MkIXs of RAF 73 Squadron, taxing at Prkos near Zadar, Yugoslavia on 22nd of April 1945; note [...]
On April 21st, 1918, Manfred Von Richthofen was shot down in a dogfight over Vaux-sur-Somme, France. Many theories exist as to the true identity of exactly who shot the bullet that killed the ‘Red Baron’. For many years common wisdom [...]
There is a great camera store in Austin, Texas (where my daughter lives) that offers a wide variety of classes covering many aspects of photography. This weekend they offered a class taught by a well-known aviation photographer (Moose [...]
Interesting day, April 20th. Some say it is a ‘cursed’ day, a day when more than statistically normal amounts of tragedy occur. From the birth of Adolf Hitler to Columbine, to Deepwater Horizon (and that’s just the last few years), [...]
