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On This Day…January 6th

by david leigh-smith on January 6, 2019 · in News · 9 ≡

On the 6th January, 1945 the USS Columbia (CL-56) was assisting in pre-invasion bombardments in Lingayen Gulf. Having narrowly missed being kit by a Japanese Zero just moments before (photo below; did that photographer have some guts...) [...]

On This Day…January 5th

by david leigh-smith on January 5, 2019 · in News · 9 ≡

On January 5th, 1941 while flying an Airspeed Oxford for the Air Transport Axilliary from Prestwick (Scotland) to RAF Kidlington near Oxford, Amy Johnson found herself off course in poor weather conditions. Reportedly out of fuel, she [...]

On This Day…January 4th

by david leigh-smith on January 4, 2019 · in News · 26 ≡

I’ve posted several photos of soldiers and airmen with their pets and mascots, but this one seems somehow special. This photo of a GI (535th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, 99th Infantry Division) waking up to be greeted by his pal [...]

On This Day…January 3rd

by david leigh-smith on January 3, 2019 · in News · 21 ≡

On the 3rd January, 1943, Staff Sgt Alan Magee (Ball Turret Gunner) pictured below, was blown out of his B-17 (named, 'Snap! Crackle! Pop!') at 22,000 feet after it was hit by flack. Without a parachute, Magee thought his time was up and [...]

On This Day…January 2nd

by david leigh-smith on January 2, 2019 · in News · 9 ≡

Great stern view of the USS New Mexico (BB-40) on January 2nd, 1943. January 2nd, 1945. This Panzer IV has been hit three times by bazooka (probably more as target/experimental practice rather than in theatre, but I can't find an exact [...]

On This Day…January 1st

by david leigh-smith on January 1, 2019 · in News · 8 ≡

Bf109 “White 13” of JG 53 pilot, Uffz. Herbert Maxis. On January 1st, 1945 he was hit by AA-fire over Metz airfield as part of ‘Operation Bodenplatte’ and made a perfect belly landing only 200 yards from American AA-positions. [...]

On This Day…December 31st.

by david leigh-smith on December 31, 2018 · in News · 11 ≡

On December 31st, 1940, the HMS Hood was berthed at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland. United States Naval officer, Joseph Wellings, recorded the day in his diary... "Last day of 1940 – up at usual time 0745 – breakfast, a good [...]

On This Day…December 30th

by david leigh-smith on December 30, 2018 · in News · 7 ≡

A view of USS New Jersey (the US Navy’s most decorated battleship with 19 Battle Stars) firing all nine 16-inch guns simultaneously on either side simultaneously, 30 December, 1986. December 30th (1947) saw the first flight of the [...]

On This Day...December 29th

by david leigh-smith on December 29, 2018 · in News · 3 ≡

Sailors of the USS Essex (CV-9) spelling out “Goede Kerst” (Merry Christmas) on the flight deck while putting in at Rotterdam port, the Netherlands, 29th December 1961. The Essex was the lead ship of her class of 24 aircraft carriers. [...]

On This Day…December 28th

by david leigh-smith on December 28, 2018 · in News · 11 ≡

Battleship USS Iowa entering floating dry-dock ABSD-2 at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, December 28th 1944. The Iowa earned 9 Battlestars in WWII and two for her service in Korea. Quite unbelievably she was only finally decommissioned in [...]