La WW2 différente

Image de la fin de seconde guerre mondiale. La guerre dans toute sont horreur, projet de la dernière chance.

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German aircraft, including the jet fighter Me-262, abandoned at the airport in Austria, where they went to the Americans, spring 1945 years.

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Meanwhile, in the workshop of Paul Allen, the restoration of the German jet fighter Me-262, which lasted almost ten years. The plane will fly on (Attention!) original Jumo 004B engines! If all goes well, the first flight of the Me-262 will take place this winter, and possibly at the end of December!

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BV 142 four-engine heavy

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BV 222

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The first image of Earth, taken 1946 on a V2 rocket. Clyde Holliday, the engineer who developed the camera, saw the potential: in a 1950 National Geographic article, he predicted that one day “the entire land area of the globe might be mapped in this way”.

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The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range. Snapping a new frame every second and a half, the rocket-borne camera climbed straight up, then fell back to Earth minutes later, slamming into the ground at 500 feet per second. The camera itself was smashed, but the film, protected in a steel cassette, was unharmed.

Fred Rulli was a 19-year-old enlisted man assigned to the recovery team that drove into the desert to retrieve film from those early V-2 shots. When the scientists found the cassette in good shape, he recalls, “They were ecstatic, they were jumping up and down like kids.” Later, back at the launch site, “when they first projected [the photos] onto the screen, the scientists just went nuts.”

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V2 panorama from July 26, 1948:

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Bf 109 G-2 of 4 / JG 52 in flight over the Caucasus mountains in the summer of 1943

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Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet

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Arado Ar 234 Blitz

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The result of the shot ISU-152 on the turretof the Panther tank"

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Ta 152H, unknown date. The greatly extended wing is clearly evident in this image.

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The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 was a World War II German high-altitude fighter-interceptor designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf.

The Ta 152 was a development of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft. It was intended to be made in at least three versions—the Ta 152H Höhenjäger (“high-altitude fighter”), the Ta 152C designed for medium-altitude operations and ground-attack using a Daimler-Benz DB 603 and smaller wings, and the Ta 152E fighter-reconnaissance aircraft with the engine of the H model and the wing of the C model.

The first Ta 152H entered service with the Luftwaffe in January 1945. The Ta 152 was produced too late and in insufficient numbers to affect the outcome of the war.

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Luftwaffe Ta 152 High Altitude Interceptor (Designer Kurt Tank)

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BAND OF BROTHERS

Captain Richard D. Winters and Captain Lewis Nixon a couple of days before the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944

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Pont de la roque.

Bombardé en 1944 Normandie.

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THE ‘NEW” LUFTWAFFE

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