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On This Day…April 5th.

by david leigh-smith on April 5, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 7 ≡

A burned out M4A3 ‘Easy Eight’ of the 31st Tank Battalion (7th Armoured Division) that was knocked out during the battle around Oberkirchen, in the North Rhine-Westphalia region. April 5th, 1945. Grumman Hellcat MkII (Royal Navy [...]

On This Day…April 4th.

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

‘Gardening’ mission was the term given to RAF sorties to lay sea mines by aircraft whereby bombers would fly in relatively low and plant parachute assisted mines that would sit at a prescribed depth, just below the surface of the [...]

On This Day…April 3rd.

by david leigh-smith on April 3, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 7 ≡

By 1944, the battleship Tirpitz, sister ship to the Bismarck, had long been a coveted target of the British Admiralty. Just the existence of the battleship alone was enough to influence the British Fleet’s strategy and tactical thinking, [...]

On This Day…April 2nd.

by david leigh-smith on April 2, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 7 ≡

Iconic photo of Kittyhawk Mark I with the RAF 112 Squadron, taxiing through the treacherously uneven scrub of the Libyan desert on 2nd of April, 1942. The groundcrew on the wing is helping guide the pilot around potential unseen obstacles [...]

On This Day…April 1st.

by david leigh-smith on April 1, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 8 ≡

The battleship USS Idaho (BB-42) shelling Okinawa on April 1st, 1945. Seafire III landing aboard an unidentified carrier on April 1st, part of Operation Iceberg at Okinawa. Interestingly for modelers, the lighter tone of the aerilon and [...]

On This Day…March 31st.

by david leigh-smith on March 31, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 10 ≡

Today in 1945 the RAF sent a force of 469 aircraft from Bomber Groups 1, 6 and 8 comprising of 361 Lancasters, 100 Halifaxes and 8 Mosquitoes. The brief was to attack the Blohm and Voss shipyards at Hamburg where “a new type of U Boat [...]

On This Day…March 30th.

by david leigh-smith on March 30, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 2 ≡

Jagdtiger 131 (Panzerjager Abteilung 653) knocked out in Schwetzingen, Germany, on March 30th, 1945. US Navy K-class airship K-111 on exercises with Escort Carrier USS Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81) off San Diego, California, on 30th March, 1943. [...]

On This Day…29th March.

by david leigh-smith on March 29, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 12 ≡

March 29th is officially the ‘National Vietnam War Veterans Day’ and today, on March 29th, 1975, the last Allied troop left South Vietnam. However you feel about that war, it is important to recognise those who fought there and the [...]

On This Day…March 28th

by david leigh-smith on March 28, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 7 ≡

Any landing you walk away from... A F9F Panther of VF-64 (Freelancers) crashes the barrier aboard the USS Yorktown (CVA-10) off Korea, March 28th, 1954... The photo above shows the mothballed Yorktown at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in [...]

On This Day…March 27th

by david leigh-smith on March 27, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 10 ≡

Beautiful colourised photo of an Me 262 A-1a photographed just off the Frankfurt autobahn on Match 27th, 1945. As you can see, the Jumo engines and cowling shave been removed and there are live 30 mil shells scattered around the area. [...]