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On This Day...March 6th

by david leigh-smith on March 6, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 8 ≡

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

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

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

by david leigh-smith on March 4, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 11 ≡

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

by david leigh-smith on March 3, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 14 ≡

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

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

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

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

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.

by david leigh-smith on February 28, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 30 ≡

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

by david leigh-smith on February 28, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 3 ≡

‘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

by david leigh-smith on February 27, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 12 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day...February 26th

by david leigh-smith on February 26, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 11 ≡

There’s no substitute for experience. On 26th February, 2012 the North American P-51 known as ‘The Brat III’ (owned and operated at considerable expense by the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Dallas) found itself circling above Mobile, [...]