iModeler Photo Collections

New and historic photograph collections

On This Day...March 7th

F4U-1A (Bu.17799) at The Air Museum in Ontario, CA on March 7th, 1970. This aircraft was bought by MGM studios after the Second World War for filming as a prop. She was eventually used in the filming of the TV show, ‘Ba Ba Black [...]

On This Day...March 6th

Croydon Aerodrome, England, March 6th, 1940. Wildcat aboard Long Island (CVE-1) ready for launching, off Viti Levu, Fiji Islands, 6th March, 1943. Great modeler’s photo of Covenanter tanks on the side of a road during Exercise [...]

On This Day...March 5th

The USS Seal (SS-183) during her trials, off Provincetown, United States, 5th March, 1938. Seal left for her fifth (of a final count of twelve war patrols) tour on 24 Oct heading for the Palau Islands. On 16 Nov, she intercepted a convoy [...]

On This day...March 4th

This photo is of the seldom seen ‘USS Robin’ off Ford Island, Pearl Harbour - 4th March, 1943. The loss of the Hornet (CV-8) at the Battle of Santa Cruz in October of ‘42 was a severe blow for US forces in the South Pacific, leaving [...]

On This Day...March 3rd

Stirling Short Bomber in front of St. Paul’s cathedral on March 3rd as the start of a ‘Wings for Victory’ drive to raise money for aircraft. Avro Lancaster bomber suffers a ‘rough’ landing at RAF Fiskerton, March 3, [...]

On This Day...March 2nd

Crew of the U-Boat U-50 show off their Iron Crosses On March 2nd, 1940. The crew of the ‘Dreadful’ left the German-administered island of Helgoland (sometimes known as Heligoland), on 6 February 1940, U-50 en route to Scotland on her [...]

On This Day...March 1st

American GI Ivan Parrott captured on film as he runs through the smoke in no man's land near Neuss, Germany during the Battle for the Rhine on 1st March 1945. More diorama bait... Lancaster of 153 Squadron, Scampton, England on 1st March [...]

No ship, Sherlock.

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 [...]

On This Day...February 28th

‘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 [...]

On This Day...February 27th

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 [...]