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On This Day…February 5th

by david leigh-smith on February 5, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 6 ≡

On February 5th, 1944, the crew of the 'Star Valley' B-24 Liberator were on their way home (Shipdham, East Anglia, England) from their eighth of 25 scheduled missions, bombing a Renault works manufacturing plant near Tours, in the Loire et [...]

On This Day…February 4th

by david leigh-smith on February 4, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 8 ≡

FT-17, Panzer I Ausf. A, T-26, and Vickers 6-ton Type B tanks, captured in China, on display at the Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Japan, Feb 1939. The XF-12, in my opinion, is a lovely aircraft that looked especially sleek [...]

On This Day…February 3rd

by david leigh-smith on February 3, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 4 ≡

The USS Enterprise CVN-65 was officially decommissioned on February 3rd, 2017. The event was marked with a private celebration on the hangar deck. Russian soldiers search some of the 200-plus German tanks left in the streets of [...]

On This Day…February 2nd

by david leigh-smith on February 2, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 8 ≡

US soldiers From the 7th Infantry Division position a 37mm M3 anti-tank gun (two M4 Sherman’s in the background on point). This photo was taken on Kwajalein on February 2nd, 1944. The bloody conquest of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands [...]

On This Day…February 1st

by david leigh-smith on February 1, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 24 ≡

In one of the most iconic aircraft photos of WWII, this is the B-17 ‘All American III’ - photographed by Lieutenant Charles “Cliff” Cutforth, a crew member aboard the B-17 ‘Flying Flint Gun’ which was on the same mission to [...]

On This Day January…31st

by david leigh-smith on January 31, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 12 ≡

Continuing the 'series within a seriee...January 31, 1971 - in Quang Tri, an American soldier and his little puppy share a moment of sleep at the staging base before being airlifted to Khe Sanh. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Eddie [...]

On This Day…January 30th

by david leigh-smith on January 30, 2019 · in News · 21 ≡

British soldiers examine a downed German bomber on the morning of 30th January 1941 during the blitz on London. U.S. air policemen take cover behind their jeep as they come under sniper fire near Da Nang Airbase in Vietnam on January [...]

On This Day…January 29th

by david leigh-smith on January 29, 2019 · in News · 9 ≡

Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX’s of No. 241 Squadron RAF return to their base at Madna, south-east of Campomarino, Italy, after a weather reconnaissance sortie over the Anzio beachhead, 29 January 1944. No. 241 Squadron was formed in August [...]

On This Day…January 28th

by david leigh-smith on January 28, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 21 ≡

On the 28th January, 1942, Robert Stanford-Tuck, one of the most celebrated RAF aces (29 kills to his credit and five ‘probables’) was shot down by anti-aircraft fire while on a ‘harassing’ mission over France. He had the bad luck [...]

On This Day…January 27th

by david leigh-smith on January 27, 2019 · in News · 11 ≡

Today saw the first sinking of a Japanese warship by a US submarine. On 27th January, 1942, the USS Gudgeon (SS-211) was returning home from its first war patrol, having left the submarine base at Pearl Harbor on 11 December, 1941. As a [...]