2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

he Shortest Soldier Captured The Biggest!
The World War Two story of David and Goliath – an Allied 5ft 3in soldier who captured Germany’s tallest soldier at 7ft 6in has been uncovered. Bob Roberts, who was photographed when Jakob Nacken was captured, has been awarded France’s highest military honour, the Legion d’Honneur, by the French Government.
Bob was one of the British Army’s smallest soldiers and arresting one of Germany’s tallest soldiers in the war has to be one of the most extraordinary events captured on camera.
Bob recalled how it was a true David and Goliath moment and is one of 3,000 Allied veterans to be honored with the Legion d’Honneur by the French Government 70 years after the war ended, as their stories of heroism have emerged years later.
Bob was a Corporal serving with the British Army in France. He said that there were many times when he was almost killed but he was lucky enough to scrape through with his own life.
Bob lost his younger brother Ernie during the war, who had just been entered service a few days before being shot and killed.
Bob remembered the time when his division came across Jacob and said that a huge giant came over to him to be searched as they were now prisoners of war. When the two men came face to face everyone had to laugh and Bob’s division caught it on camera.
Bob’s Legion d’Honneur medal was sent to him in the post without ceremony and arrived this week. It was Bob’s daughter who had applied for the medal on behalf of her father.
Bob said he was surprised by the honour and says he felt lucky and privileged to be given it.
Bob, lived in Bournemouth in Dorset, actually grew up in Canada and joined the army in 1942. He was deployed to England for training and was one of the first troops to land in France during the D-Day landings. Bob went on to fight in Belgium and Holland, but was hit by shrapnel in February 1945 in the final months of the war and was sent back to England for medical treatment.
Story by Ian Harvey


The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) at sea in 1955 during a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea between March and September 1955. Visible are the aircraft of Carrier Air Group 17 (CVG-17): McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee fighters of fighter squadron VF-172 Blue Bolts (painted dark blue), F2H-3 Banshees of VF-171 Aces on the catapults (painted light grey/white), and two North American AJ-1 Savage bombers parked on the port aft flight deck. On the ramp some four Douglas AD Skyraiders are parked. CVG-17's tailcode "R" is clearly visible. The destroyer in the background appears to be USS Borie (DD-704).


Ukrainian Odessa Opera theater in 1941 and in 2022.


This is how a B-17 Ball Turret Gunner did his job.




Inventor and entrepreneur Thomas A. Edison poses alongside his first all-electric automobile, the luxurious Edison Baker from 1895. Edison was internationally known as a renowned scientist and innovator by the late 19th century, and was a household name among most Americans.
By this time, America was changing and becoming far more mechanized and technologically advanced; and family transportation was evolving from horse-drawn buggies to motorized battery and gasoline-powered autos. In time, even the Hatfields and McCoys and countless others from eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia would adapt to this modern new world, too.

[kach22i]

November 5, 2021
Boeing Australia Tests Unmanned ‘Loyal Wingman’ Aircraft
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/11/05/boeing-australia-loyal-wingman/



Dec 2020
Successful attritableONE (XQ-58 Valkyrie) return to flight test enables formation flight with fifth-generation fighters
https://www.robins.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2447194/successful-attritableone-xq-58-valkyrie-return-to-flight-test-enables-formation/

[VINMAN]

[bkreigsr]

On the way home from Amelia Island....

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by kach22i

November 5, 2021
Boeing Australia Tests Unmanned ‘Loyal Wingman’ Aircraft

Range: 3,700 km (2,300 mi, 2,000 nmi)
That's impressive, loosing a pilot frees up a lot of space and weight to translate to such range out of such a plane


It didn't work out well in sci fi tho





Also.. kinda surprised such tech comes by Boeing Australia..
You'de think that kind of tech is closely guarded in the USA and kept in house ?!

[GH85Carrera]

True Grit author Charles Portis based his Rooster Cogburn character on some real-life folks in Fort Smith, Arkansas, including John Franklin Cogburn and one-eyed Deputy Marshal Cal Whitson(shown, standing in front of his grocery store, second from right).


Wife and daughter of Frank S. Bliven (an auto dealer in Washington D.C.) in a 1907 Franklin Model D roadster

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by bkreigsr

On the way home from Amelia Island....

Fort AP Hill just before Port Royal on 301. I have driven past it a hundred times...I stopped the first time, 1988!

The Mudd house is about 20 miles north off of 301.

[GH85Carrera]

Scottish Cameron Highlander and Indian troops march past pyramids in Egypt in 1940, part of the Allied defense preparations against an Italian attack, during World War II.




Route 66 and the famous people that grew up along it. Here is a photo of one of baseball's greatest stars, Mickey Mantle. He grew up in the Rt. 66 town of Commerce, Oklahoma. In the photo, he is receiving keys to a new Oldsmobile from a dealer in Baxter Springs, Kansas.

"10/20/1931 - Mickey Charles Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. A few years later, his family moved to Commerce, Oklahoma. Working for Eagle-Picher during the summer months, Mickey became amazingly strong. By age 16, he was playing with the semi-pro Whiz Kids team from Baxter Springs, KS. In the photo, Mantle is receiving the keys to his new Oldsmobile Holiday at Pruitt Motors in Baxter Springs. The building still stands behind the restored Phillips 66 Station." The photo and quoted paragraph above are courtesy of Joe Sonderman


It’s hard to imagine that any part of downtown looked like this, let alone 20 years into the 20th century. (The cars we can see are circa late 1920s.) The road we can see in this photo is Spring Street which runs alongside what then would have been the newly opened Los Angeles City Hall (which opened in 1928) that we can see in the background. It’s amazing that Spring St was still a meandering dirt road. I’m guessing this stretch was around about where the 101 Freeway now cuts across the top of downtown L.A. The “Auto Park 15 cents” sign refers to Sunset Blvd ends just north of the 101

[Seahawk]

[QUOTE=GH85Carrera;11629715]
This is how a B-17 Ball Turret Gunner did his job.

[Racerbvd]

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by bkreigsr

On the way home from Amelia Island....

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Fort AP Hill just before Port Royal on 301. I have driven past it a hundred times...I stopped the first time, 1988!

The Mudd house is about 20 miles north off of 301.

I’m in Bluffton, north of Amelia Island and south of Port Royal. I’m thinking, how in the hell did the Lincoln assassin end up down here?

Wrong state!😂

[porsche930dude]

https://themindcircle.com/turkish-ghost-town/?fbclid=IwAR2L-xfRGQUSch3CXoscOjThj8HjywlMa3uXbuREKoKI7viUxt9mZ_r auUU

[Seahawk]

^^^ I really enjoy finding out about these type of places.

From high above:



The video in the post above mine is neat, btw.

[GH85Carrera]

March 7th 1961 – The # 2 North American X-15 became the first manned aircraft to exceed 4 times the speed of sound - Mach 4 with test pilot Capt. Robert M. White at the controls.
Then on November 9th, 1961, White flew the X-15 to 4,093 mph, making him the first pilot to fly a winged craft at six times the speed of sound (Mach 6.0). President John F. Kennedy conferred the most prestigious award in American aviation, the Robert J. Collier Trophy, jointly to Capt. Robert M. White, and three of his fellow X-15 pilots: NASA's Joseph A. Walker, Commander Forrest S. Petersen of the U.S. Navy, and North American Aviation test pilot Scott Crossfield. A day later, Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis E. LeMay awarded Capt White as a Command Pilot Astronaut


McGregor, Iowa in 1870 about 23 years after the Scotsman Alexander MacGregor, descendant of Rob Roy MacGregor, settled in the area.




Fisherman’s Village, Marina del Rey, 1964. Source: Marina del Rey Historical Society


Here is an interesting photo looking east from State Highway 4 of Route 66 in Yukon, Oklahoma before construction of the four-lane began in 1949. This is a great location shot from a historical perspective. That location became a central point of the town after Hwy 66 was widened but the photo shows it as a very rural spot. Downtown Yukon is about 4 blocks behind (or west of) the photographer.
This photo is courtesy of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation Photo Archives.

[JackDidley]

[craigster59]

[GH85Carrera]

Battleship Division Two steaming in column, 7 June 1954, in the Virginia Capes operating area, on the only occasion that all four Iowa class battleships were photographed operating together. Ship leading the column is USS Wisconsin (BB-64). The others are (in no particular order): USS Iowa (BB-61); USS New Jersey (BB-62) and USS Missouri (BB-63). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, Nara


This photo, taken on March 29, 1945, at a POW camp near Wetzlar, Germany, shows Allied airmen enjoying freedom after months/years of captivity. They were liberated by members of the 7th Armored Division and are posing under their handmade directional signs.


Aerial view of Utah Beach, Normandy, France, morning of 6 June 1944


March 7, 1945 seizure of the Ludendorff Bridge. This photograph of members of the 9th Armored Division was taken at Camp Patrick Henry in Newport News on the day the division was inactivated that October. The soldiers pose with the sign they painted and hung over the Ludendorff Railroad Bridge across the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany. When the division seized the site, it was the last intact bridge spanning the Rhine.


General Patton's Ivory grip pistol.

[John Rogers]

Here is a picture of our late daughter who died nearly 4 years ago of a hemorrhagic stroke carrying a Jeff Gordon left front tire that the Goodyear master tire engineer lady saved for her at the CA Speedway in the 1998 NASCAR race. These used ones Goodyear was selling for $10 to $100 depending on who used them. She was offered $500 by a fellow as we carried it back to the van during a break in practice. We also get a Jimmy Spencer and Mark Martin tires and they sure made the inside of the van smell like rubber!

In the picture Glenn posted with the X-15 rocket plane it was mentioned that one of the pilots was a Commander Petersen of the USN who ended up being CO of the USS Enterprise when I was stationed on it for the first 1 1/2 years. He had a beautiful girl friend who had been Miss Philippines 1970 so every time we went into port, either Subic Bay, Hong Kong or Singapore she would fly in to stay with him (he paid I think for the flight) and in Subic Bay they stayed in the honeymoon suite at the Marmont Hotel! She still has her picture on the web if you Google Miss PI 1970. I always thought it unusual as his son was going into his senior year at the Naval academy and his wife was running a large organization to help wounded vets coming from 'Nam AND he had made going off base into town off limits for ALL the officers, even the pilots!
John

[craigster59]

Toe Blake, Dit Clapper and Eddie Shore.

[Heel n Toe]

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