Streamline Star Wars

All things military and espionage, 1914-1953. Ostensibly inspiration for my Dieselpunk Star Wars adaptation.

[usafphantom6]

The Petlyakov Pe-2 LL, a flying test bed designed to test the 10X pulsejet, a Russian copy of the Argus engine used in the Fi-103.

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[postcard-from-the-past]

German battleship Gneisenau on a vintage postcard

[thehillsofbastogne]

American troops in Carentan. 12 June 1944.

📸 courtesy of NARA Still Picture Branch

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[usafphantom6]

A Soviet I-16 fighter with RS-82 unguided rockets mounted on it at an airfield before takeoff. The photograph was likely taken in August or fall 1941 and shows an I-16 Type 29 from the 7th Fighter Aviation Regiment operating near Leningrad

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[usafphantom14]

RAAF at Bohle River aerodrome in Townsville, Qld - WW2

Written on reverse: Charles Robert Moody, RAAF No.26809, Unit No.1 Engineering School.

Comment from Linz Oz: These aircraft were assigned to 86 Squadron in April 1945 but I suspect never saw combat. No. 86 Squadron was disbanded at Bohle River Aerodrome on 20 December 1945 - which is possibly the location of this photo.

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[usafphantom14]

Beaufort MK.1

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[usafphantom14]

B-25J 2nd Squadron

During 1942 and 1943 No 2 Squadron flew bombing, ground-attack, anti-shipping, and reconnaissance missions over the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies. As a result of these operations the squadron was awarded the US Presidential Unit Citation in July 1943 for “outstanding performance of duty in action”. Having begun to train with Beaufort aircraft, in May 1944 the squadron converted to B 25 Mitchell bombers, which remained in service for the rest of the war. The squadron disbanded in May 1946.

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[usafphantom10]

Refueling of a German Fw.200C Condor bomber of the 40th Bomber Squadron (KG40) before the Atlantic patrol

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[usaac-official]

Crewmen pose with a 422nd Night Fighter Squadron P-61 at Florennes Air Base, Belgium, 1944-1945

[usafphantom8]

A New Zealand Lockheed Hudson IIIA bomber (NZAF serial number NZ2066, tail number UH-F, manufactured at the Hobsonville plant in the US in 1942) in flight. The aircraft went missing on August 20, 1944, while en route from Fiji to Whinuapai, New Zealand 🇳🇿

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[usaac-official]

406th Fighter Group P-47s at Nordholz, Germany, June 1945

[everythingphilippeleclerc]

General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque in Bangui, now the Central African Republic. April-May 1941.

This is the current profile picture of the blog, it is slightly cropped, but it is hard to find a high quality version of the full photograph.

[everythingphilippeleclerc]

Found a better quality version.

[sjvllsblog]

The King inspects an airborne jeep fitted with a Vickers machine-gun during a visit to airborne forces in Southern Command, 21 May 1942. With him is Major-General Frederick 'Boy' Browning, GOC 1st Airborne Division.

[usafphantom6]

An I-153 "Chaika" fighter from the 7th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Soviet Air Force takes off from an airfield. 1941

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[populusfennicapatriam]

Finnish soldier aiming with Degtyaryov machine gun (DP-27). Hanko front, Finland ca. 1941.

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Degtyaryov DP-28 - 7.62x54mmR