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On This Day…December 17th

by david leigh-smith on December 17, 2018 · in News · 16 ≡

There is a real beauty in this colourised photo of Wilbur (running along the wingtip) and Orville Wright (piloting) during their historic flight on December 17th, 1903. Below is a copy of the telegram sent by Orvelle (sic) excitedly [...]

On This Day…December 16th

by david leigh-smith on December 16, 2018 · in News · 25 ≡

SOC-3A ‘Seagull’ floatplane of US Navy Scouting Squadron 201 (VS-201) photographed today in 1941 on the deck of escort carrier USS Long Island (CVE-1, the first US escort carrier). LST (Landing Ship,Tank) -66 landing troops during [...]

On This Day…December 15th

by david leigh-smith on December 15, 2018 · in News · 5 ≡

The Norseman C64 (44-70285) was the aircraft in which Glenn Miller boarded en route to France on the 15th December 1944. That aircraft disappeared somewhere over the English Channel with the loss of Major Glenn Miller, Pilot Flight Officer [...]

On This Day…December 14th

by david leigh-smith on December 14, 2018 · in News · 10 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day...December 13th.

by david leigh-smith on December 13, 2018 · in News · 12 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day...December 12th

by david leigh-smith on December 12, 2018 · in News · 13 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day… December 11th.

by david leigh-smith on December 11, 2018 · in News · 13 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day...December 10th.

by david leigh-smith on December 10, 2018 · in News · 13 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day...December 9th.

by david leigh-smith on December 9, 2018 · in News · 9 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day…December 8th.

by david leigh-smith on December 8, 2018 · in News · 7 ≡

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 [...]