A WW2 Pillbox in a state of disrepair on Aberdeen Beach at dusk.

I road along with a local Minneapolis based vintage airplane club for their annual River Run along the Mississippi. The planes are WW2 era T-6 Texan warbird trainers from different military branches. The photo was taken in a formation over a eastern suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota called Cottage Grove.

In May 1945 Soviet troops liberated the Danish island of Bornholm. The German garrison surrendered after a heavy bombardment of Bornholm's cities, i.a. Rønne. In April 1946 - 75 years ago - Soviet troops left Bornholm.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8nne

www.roennebyarkiv.com/oslashstergade-bombebilleder.html

Carolyn Grace taxis to display The Grace Spitfire at the 2010 Bentwaters Airshow.

Just after take-off, this is a Mk.XIV Spitfire painted as it was in 1947 for the (then Royal) Indian Air Force.

More than 20,000 Spitfires had been built by the end of WW2, and many continued in service, used by more than 30 Air Arms around the world, well into the 1950s.

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Twin jet fighter, which entered service with the Luftwaffe, towards the end ot WW2, this example is at RAFM Cosford

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I have an uncle who was a marine during ww2 who fought in the pacific. This is a Japanese flag that he brought home, it has a few names written on it from some of the men that he served with. The names on the flag are:

Charles F Blanbo from Washington DC ( I think that's what the last name is, its kinda fuzzy)

Harold L Bachelor from Portland Oregon

Wm Roberts from Brookville Indiana

Frank Trusky from Akron Ohio

James E. Day from Huntsville Alaska

Douglas P. Searbrough from Monterey Tennessee

Harlan Bunnilk from Rockford Minnesota

John L. England from Jacksonville Texas

and my uncle Charles Fortney

I'm still trying to get more information like the unit he was in and if my uncle can remember where he got the flag from. He gave this to me about 25 or 30 years ago, it's been at my parents house till I asked them to send it to me.

The Shuttleworth Collection Festival of Flight 2025.

Inspired by pictures of the 2015 Terrorist attack aftermath photos in Europe. I plan to do more modern soldiers and continue with my WW2 ones

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Looking back 75 Years WW2. Normandy, France.

D-Day, June 6, 1944. WW2.

The Mulberry Harbour was built for D-Day in June 1944. The Mulberry Harbour’s purpose was to ease and speed up the unloading process so that Allied troops were supplied as they advanced across France after breaking out from Normandy. The success of D-Day could only be maintained if the advancing troops were supplied and more men landed. The Mulberry Harbour was one of the greatest engineering feats of World War Two.

Rootz grandfather?

i have an obsession with the WW2 era for some reason.

idk how this idea came to me, but just thought i'd give it a try.

& my monitor all of a sudden became super-contrasted.

so i have no idea how this picture really looks.

hopefully it's okaay.

Le B-17 fut le plus célèbre des bombardiers lourds de l’US Army Air Force. Son impressionnant armement défensif justifiait pleinement son nom de Flying Fortress (Forteresse volante). Le B-17 était un avion incroyablement robuste. Certains réussirent à regagner leur base sur un seul moteur, tandis que d’autres, étaient tellement endommagés à leur retour qu’il fallut les envoyer directement à la casse. Il doit cette notoriété à la fois à son nom, très populaire, et à la part qu’il prit aux raids de jour sur l’Europe, raids qui donnèrent lieu à l’une des batailles les plus féroces de tous les temps. Source : www.avionslegendaires.net/avion-militaire/boeing-b-17-fly...

Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 was one of four Kaiser shipyards in Richmond that built Liberty and Victory cargo ships and troop transports during WW2.

I did it. I built a WW2 MOC. And there are probably more to follow since I’ve quite a few minifigs I’ve never used before.

The minifigs are from TMC and CitizenBrick.

The window technique is from Maxim Baybakov , please check out his stream.

Explore #1, FP, and Interestingness on Jan 8, 2009. Thanks everyone and it's great to be back and editing photos again.

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View Our Hiking Groups Victory Photo on This Same Metal Grate

What's up everyone. After 2 weeks I've finally found the time to do some photo processing. I've taken a bunch of photos over this break and will be making a full return. I've got a lot of Flickr to catch up on this coming weekend. Hope everyone had a great new year and I'm looking forward to seeing all the photos I've missed.

This was taken on a hike at Koko Head Crater in Hawaii Kai. It's a hike on an abandoned rail track going straight up the side of this mountain. The railway and bunkers on the peak were used during WW2 but now rest in an abandoned state of decay. This is a view of Hawaii Kai from the very top about 20 minutes before sunset. Hiking this trail helped me realize how out of shape I was :) New years resolution do more hikes...

First Vertorama of the year for me. bottom and top made from 7 exposures in photomatix. Blended the -3 exposure back onto parts of the sunset sky. Manually stitched both sections, curves, saturation, unsharp mask, and noise ninja.

VIC - Very Important Cow

This wasone of my Grandfathers note books from WW2. He would check off the days and note things that he did. This page shows he had an operation/got out stitches etc.

This also held addresses, letters sent, telegrams sent, letters and parcels revieved, scone recipe,convoy info.

The photo in the background is of the soldiers marching through Auckland before embarking in April 1941.

A friend and I were at Bunker Bash 2009, the annual military rally at the former Government bunker at Kelvedon Hatch, near Brentwood in Essex. We had been undecided about going so arrived late and not in the best of weather.

We found an enthusiatic bunch of re-enactors and military vehicles owners covering both World Wars. One part of the site had been laid out as mock entrenchments with various national groups including British, US, German, Soviet and even Serbian forces dug-in.

Now part of a large set: www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157618288704499/

"Lady Luck" as the squad likes to call her

October 13, 2018

Spirit Of St. Louis Air Show

KSUS, Chesterfield, Missouri

Ste-Mère-Église

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At the Llangollen 1940's weekend event.

'Cean, France'

'1944'

'The Americans and British forces have reached the city of Cean after the liberation of the D-Day beaches. When the Allies tried to capture the city they got ambushed buy German forces who where hiding in the ruins of the city.'

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Sorry it took me so long to upload sommeting, i have some problems at school and my parent took my PC.

I hope you like the scene, if you do please comment and/or fave

=)

JurriFlurry.

Topside pass at The Shuttleworth Collection Bedfordshire Vintage Air Show.

On the hills

The abandoned York Shore Battery, built in 1942-43 to protect Halifax Harbour.

Shot taken on the USS Battleship Iowa in San Pedro, CA.

My completely rebuild Lego Sherman M4A3. Thanks to WW2 Creations for letting me use his droid head-sandbag technique ;-)

For more pictures check out my YouTube-channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow3HMtt24KE&feature=youtu.be

'ELEANOR' - 'RUFFORD ON THE HOMEFRONT' - 26th-27th SEPT 2015

Dug in Hungarian soldiers man a Schwarzlose M1907/12 Machine Gun at the Eastern Front. C. 1944

Part of the February in Narva character photographs taken for the end credit scene of the stop motion.

Vorwärts männer! Wehrmacht advances into a village in the outskirts of Russia. Circa 1943.

That sexy helmet is from Jakub Marciniak Figs are from Minifig Co.

My current collection of upgraded ww2 models. I have some WIP models around but i won't show them just yet. I do have my older LVT's and Halftracks in old dark grey that will go up fpr grabs soon enough.

lego ww2 moc

Just airborne beginning of flight into the setting sun.