Defending the Beachhead
#otd Army anti-aircraft halftrack emplaced by a beach exit road in the center part of beach "Alpha red," near Cavalaire, France, Southern...
DUKW landing (1944)
#otd DUKW amphibious trucks landing on beach "Alpha red," near Cavalaire, France, during the Southern France Invasion, on 18 August 1944....
P-47 Transport (1943)
#otd Close-up of a landing wheel of a Republic P-47, heavily enshrouded for its trans-Atlantic journey at Glasgow, Scotland. 17 August...
Do-335 (1945)
Flashback to July 1945, with a captured German Dornier Do-335 in Germany. #wwii #do335 #luftwaffe #aviationsafari #aviationpreservation...
SS Europa
#otd S.S. Europa, German Passenger Liner, 1928. Moves out of drydock at Bremerhaven, Germany, July 18, 1945, while being reactivated. She...
Battle wagons bombarding
#otd Battleships and heavy cruisers steam in column off Kamaishi, at the time they bombarded the iron works there, as seen from USS South...
PB4Y- 59351 (1944)
#otd #Convair PB4Y-2 59351 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 11 July 1944. #pb4y #paxriver #wwii #flynavy #aviationsafari...
Sicily Invasion (1943)
#otd Sicily Invasion, S.S. Robert Rowan on fire and then blows up off Gela, 11 July 1943. She had been set afire by German Air Attack,...
HMS Reaper D82 (1944)
#otd British escort carrier HMS Reaper D82 underway, she was ex-USS Winjah CVE-54, 9 July 1944. She served in the Royal Navy from 1944...
Helldiver’s in filght (1944)
#otd Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver’s fly over task force 58 carriers, while returning to USS Yorktown CV-10 after strikes on Chichi Jima....
