#WWII in Color

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PBY Catalina "Black Cat" in the South Pacific during WWII in the 1940s

🎥 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/VY-qhlb7Ilg

📷 HD IMAGE: 🎥 WW2 VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/WW2

During World War II, a shadowy hunter concealed from enemy vessels below in the dead of night in the South Pacific. These treacherous nighttime operations, known as "Black Cat" or "Nightmare" missions, would become your squadron's signature, earning you the legendary moniker: "Black Cats." In these early years of the 1940s, under the cloak of darkness, PBY airmen forged their enduring fame. Painted in matte black for optimal stealth, WWII's PBY Black Cats Squadron pioneered a new era of practical and ingenious late-night aerial warfare.

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Men of the 5th Northamptonshire Regiment, 11th Inf. Brig., 78th Inf.Div. on the march near Coldragone, Italy. 25 May 1944.

(Photo source- © IWM NA 15513)

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A Vought OS2U Kingfisher being loaded with a pair of yellow practice bombs, at a naval air station.

Date: early 1942

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-K-13493

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USS INTREPID (CV-11) photographed by Richard Shipman from the rear seat of an SB2C, after taking off to attack the Japanese Fleet in the Battle of Sibuyan Sea.

Photographed on October 24, 1944.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-K-2198

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80-G-K-5887 Japanese YOKOSUKA MXY7 OHKA (BAKA) piloted flying bomb which had been captured on Okinawa. Photographed 26 June 1945, while under study by experts at N.A.M. Unit by Wonder Years Of Aviation Via Flickr: color

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WW2: Real Footage

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Firing Up the Lightning

Pilot Charles Hainline turns over one of P-38F Lightning White 33's two Allison engines at a National Museum of World War II Aviation event, before taking it up for a demonstration flight for the crowd. White 33 is a Pacific combat veteran aircraft with recorded victories, and is not just airworthy but flown often!

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[dystopian-intellectual-pigeon]

Obsessed with the ad to join the US Military playing before Godzilla Minus One. We get to watch this amazing film about the trauma of war, the struggle to rebuild after the destruction of bombings, the fight to value individual humans in the face of governments who see them as fodder AND THERE'S A FUCKING AD RIGHT BEFORE SAYING "THIS FILM WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE US MILITARY" !??!?! LIKE YEAH I GUESS IT KINDA WAS BUT----

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83 years ago, Independence Day was celebrated in somewhat different circumstances.

Street fighting on Independence Day in -34 degree frost in Karhumäki, Eastern Karelia, on December 6, 1941.

A high price has been paid for Finland's independence. We must cherish and protect this heritage that has been left to us. Happy Independence Day! •••••••• 83 vuotta sitten itsenäisyyspäivää vietettiin hieman erilaisemmissa tunnelmissa.

Katutaistelua itsenäisyyspäivänä -34 asteen pakkasessa Itä-Karjalan Karhumäessä, 6.12.1941.

Itsenäisyydestä on maksettu kova hinta. Meidän tulee vaalia ja suojella tätä perintöä, joka meille on jätetty. Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää! •••••••• [ sa-kuva | 66119 | T.Norjavirta ]

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Top three theropods

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The Fighting Lady. Real Combat Footage. Upscaled WW2 Documentary. The USS Yorktown CV-10

[victusinveritas]

The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 "Waddy's Wagon" posing to duplicate the nose art. All were killed in action when the bomber was shot down over Japan in January 1945.

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"Crew of B-17 Flying Fortress 'Tom Paine' (42-30793) prepares for a mission. When the men of an 8th Air Force Group gave the town of Thetford, England, a plaque, honoring it as the birthplace of Thomas Paine, American patriot, philosopher and author, the crew of a B-17 thought it appropriate to name their plain 'Tom Paine' and to inscribe the fuselage with one of his famous remarks, 'Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.'"

History of this B-17: "Delivered Cheyenne 29/7/43; Dyersburg 8/8/43; Assigned: 562BS/388BG Knettishall 3/9/43; crashed Ellough, Nfk, on return from a mission Pilot: Bob McWhite; Salvaged. 11/4/44. TOM PAINE."

-information from b17flyingfortress.de: link

Photo was received on October 4, 1945.

(U.S. Air Force Number K3973)

NARA: 205002341

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This is a colourization I did of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. There is too much to summarize about her life, so I urge you to read the Wikipedia article about her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

I got the original b+w from Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hedy_Lamarr_Ziegfeld_Girl.jpg

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At 4:31 AM, an unauthorized photo taken of Stalin inside of the Kremlin shows the very moment he was informed that Germany had began their invasion of the Soviet Union.