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its an avro lincolnShrekles wrote:That appears to be a fairly rare Lanc - twin .50s in the tail instead of a quad .303 turret.GWO2 wrote:redderneck wrote:That stunning Lanc pic is crying out for a cheeky photos hop of an "F" immediately between the roundel and the "A"...!!!
Great, great shot.
Another, he has a set of four.
Good spot. It was developed from the Lancaster wasn't it? Late model Lancs had twin .50s in the rear, not sure if they retrofitted earlier ones.Calculus wrote:its an avro lincolnShrekles wrote:That appears to be a fairly rare Lanc - twin .50s in the tail instead of a quad .303 turret.GWO2 wrote:redderneck wrote:That stunning Lanc pic is crying out for a cheeky photos hop of an "F" immediately between the roundel and the "A"...!!!
Great, great shot.
Another, he has a set of four.
backrow wrote:where is that ? anyone know ?GWO2 wrote:redderneck wrote:That stunning Lanc pic is crying out for a cheeky photos hop of an "F" immediately between the roundel and the "A"...!!!
Great, great shot.
Another, he has a set of four.
Ta - always fascinated by ‘then and now’ type pics, sadly when I googled Scarborough from the air I couldn’t recognise anything. It amuses me how some places look virtually the same 50 or 100 years later, but other places unrecognisable even from say 30 years back .GWO2 wrote:backrow wrote:where is that ? anyone know ?GWO2 wrote:redderneck wrote:That stunning Lanc pic is crying out for a cheeky photos hop of an "F" immediately between the roundel and the "A"...!!!
Great, great shot.
Another, he has a set of four.
Just checked with my father, it was over Scarborough in 1950
Ta - always fascinated by ‘then and now’ type pics, sadly when I googled Scarborough from the air I couldn’t recognise anything. It amuses me how some places look virtually the same 50 or 100 years later, but other places unrecognisable even from say 30 years back .backrow wrote:GWO2 wrote:backrow wrote:where is that ? anyone know ?GWO2 wrote:redderneck wrote:That stunning Lanc pic is crying out for a cheeky photos hop of an "F" immediately between the roundel and the "A"...!!!
Great, great shot.
Another, he has a set of four.
Just checked with my father, it was over Scarborough in 1950
Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper, 1853-1856
Damn. Those eyes have seen some shit.Taranaki Snapper wrote:Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper, 1853-1856
And are not going to take any more...Turbogoat wrote:Damn. Those eyes have seen some shit.Taranaki Snapper wrote:Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper, 1853-1856
That was the Argylls. They're Seaforths.Pat the Ex Mat wrote:The Original Thin Red Line
They are Scottish, they hadn’t even been to war yet.Shrekles wrote:And are not going to take any more...Turbogoat wrote:Damn. Those eyes have seen some shit.Taranaki Snapper wrote:Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper, 1853-1856
Going more on the shapes of the ribbon and medal attachments than the colours, perhaps: Victoria Medal with "SEBASTOPOL" bar; and Turkish Crimea medal ...Nieghorn wrote:I'm now interested in the medals. Those of the man on the right are easier to see without the glare, and even if the colours aren't correct, I'm not spotting the pattern of the ribbon of the left one. The Crimean War medal has the same bar pattern, but is darker in the middle than outside and that'd surely show in the photo. The Conspicious Gallantry medal, I think, was awarded to naval personnel and only after 1874.
Not always a fan of the colorized versions, some efforts are pretty good though.Nieghorn wrote:That one's been colourized ...
... as has this:
One of the great moments I had working at a naval museum was the day I spent cataloguing items in the Naval Air room and having a carrier vet (we had a few post-war and into the 50s in Canada, HMCS Bonaventure, Warrior and Magnificent) explain to me the major terms, how landing works, how dangerous it was, and how things improved. Fascinating stuff!Spoiler: show
Nieghorn wrote:Some of the 'British' ones ... (and, yes, that's my gloved hand)
Portcullis Irish wrote:Never previously aware of "Fenian raid" but apparently it was into Canada from the US & there were 5 incidents apparently between 1866 & 1871.
hornets wrote:Portcullis Irish wrote:Never previously aware of "Fenian raid" but apparently it was into Canada from the US & there were 5 incidents apparently between 1866 & 1871.
pffft too easy of a battle
Taranaki Snapper wrote:Twitter feed of historical Generals pointing to the porcelain:
https://twitter.com/SocialHistoryOx/sta ... 8992570369
https://twitter.com/WesternTechLax/stat ... 6527967234TheDocForgotHisLogon wrote:Taranaki Snapper wrote:Twitter feed of historical Generals pointing to the porcelain:
https://twitter.com/SocialHistoryOx/sta ... 8992570369
The Seaforth Hipsters?Taranaki Snapper wrote:Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper, 1853-1856
https://www.reddit.com/r/history/commen ... und_in_an/Some never before seen WW1 pictures found in an attic...
They ran out of fake moustaches.kiap wrote:This may only be slightly relevant to the military ... but what's the story with these hat straps?
They look fucking stupid.
I mean they look stupid anyway, but the nose gear tops it off.
"Lt John ‘Jack’ Haberfield RNZNVR
Jack Haberfield of 1839 Squadron was shot-down during the Fleet Air Arm attacks on the Japanese held oil refineries at Palembang on Sumatra (Operation Meridian 1) on 24.1.45. 1839 Squadron was one of two fighter squadrons on Indomitable (the other being 1844 Squadron). Both were equipped with Hellcats. For the first attack on Palembang Indomitable supplied 16 Hellcats as part of the fighter escort for the Avenger bomber strike force (comprising 40 Avengers from Indefatigable, Victorious, Illustrious and Indomitable). The rest of the fighter escort was provided by 29 Corsairs from Illustrious and Victorious and 9 Fireflies from Indefatigable. A small ramrod sweep were also carried out on the Japanese airfield at Mana by a mixed force of 4 Avengers and 4 Hellcats, while Indefatigable’s Seafires flew CAP over the fleet.
The main attacking force and its fighter escort encountered enemy fighter opposition about fifteen miles away from Palembang. The British believed about 20 Japanese fighters attacked the force before it reached its target. Further Japanese attacks were carried out as the strike force of Avengers reformed and headed to the rendezvous point after the attack. Six Corsairs, one Hellcat and two Avengers failed to return from Meridian I, though not all of these were shot-down by fighters. An additional strike was made five days later on 29.1.45. A further two Corsairs, one Firefly and four Avengers failed to return from Meridian II.
Of these 16 British aircraft losses, 30 FAA personnel were either KiA or PoW (11 others had been picked up by destroyers from the fleet). Post-war it was learnt that of these 30 airmen, 9 were captured alive by the Japanese. One of these was ‘Jack’ Haberfield who was the pilot of the one Hellcat lost in the entire operation. The Admiralty reports do not record the serial or code of the Haberfield’s Hellcat. The 1839 Squadron Diary may record this information, and while it is definitely extant, it appears to be held privately, as it is not at TNA or the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
From the Admiralty reports it is known that Indomitable’s Hellcats were flying middle cover, 8 at the front and 8 at the back of the main strike force. Haberfield was leading one of these sections, but it is not known which one. From the Report of Lt Cdr T.W Harrington, who was Escort Leader, it is clear that the fighter escort was not well-disciplined after the strike force was attacked by Japanese fighters about 3 minutes from the target, “About half way through the attack I could see no top cover, three aircraft of middle cover, and the remaining aircraft engaged in dog-fights in and around the target area.” In the two Meridian Operations, Fleet Air Arm pilots claimed 30 Japanese aircraft destroyed in the air, plus another 7 probably destroyed, so the air fighting was clearly intense at times. The details of the loss of Haberfield’s Hellcat are scant. Indomitable’s Report tersely concluding that “the fate of the Hellcat is unknown”
German SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing the bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves, 1945
