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These images were sent to me in an e-mail from a friend with a subject line about
these being long-lost (and recently found) photos from World War II. No credit was provided
for them, so if you are the owner, please contact me and either tell me to remove them
or provide your name so that proper attribution can be made known.
 
Japanese Kawanishi H8K seaplane
Snow on deck on USS Philippine Sea
Squad of Rufe's at Bougainville
The A6M2-N float plane version of the Zero
Deck crew climbing up to get the pilot out. He did.
Heinkel He 115
loading a torpedo
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"Spitfire 'tipping-off' a V1. At first V1s were shot down by gunfire. Optimum range
was inside 200 yds, which was marginal for survival. Many planes were damaged and
quite a few pilots killed. Basically at such high speed and low altitude a plane had
to fly though the explosion and hope. With the high risk of being blown up some of the
best pilots started tipping the V1's wing, because of damage to wing tips they later
developed a tactic of disrupting the airflow by placing their wing very close to the
V1's wing, causing it to topple. Not every pilot did this. At night this was not possible,
the flame from the V1 blinded the pilot to everything else, though some Mossie pilots
flew past closely in front of the V1, again causing it to topple. The thought of doing
this at 450 mph, 4,000 feet above the ground, at night and being blinded gives me
the willies." - Anon
Macchi 202v
Italian 303 Bombers over N. Africa
Airplanes Lost During the Pearl Harbor Attack - December 7, 1941
"A date that will live in infamy."
Posted July 17, 2011
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