Yup, I'm old enough to remember "Rosie the Riveter", rationing cards, Victory Bond stamp booklets, stomping empty food cans for metal drives, tending Victory (veggie) Gardens, sending/receiving V-mail...etc. Flaps, you old enough to 'member?
BzB
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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX
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Yup, I'm old enough to remember "Rosie the Riveter", rationing cards, Victory Bond stamp booklets, stomping empty food cans for metal drives, tending Victory (veggie) Gardens, sending/receiving V-mail...etc. Flaps, you old enough to 'member?
BzB
Test flight
An OH-58D Kiowa Warrior from Task Force Saber, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, fires a 2.75-inch rocket at a mountainside during a test flight in eastern Afghanistan, Mar. 2, 2012. The Kiowa warrior is the Army's scout and reconnaissance aircraft, which often provides close support for ground troops on the battlefield. Saber's Kiowas lead the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, which has flown more than 65,000 hours across all airframes since October 2011. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Eric Pahon, Task Force Poseidon Public Affairs
Kiowa Warriors flight
Two Task Force Saber, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade OH-58D Kiowa Warriors fly toward a training range near Jalalabad, Afghanistan March 2, 2012. Saber's Kiowas lead the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade in OH-58 hours, helping the brigade set flight-hour records in Afghanistan. The 82nd CAB has flown more than 65,000 hours since taking over in mid-October. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Eric Pahon, Task Force Poseidon Public Affairs)
Kiowa Warrior refuel
U.S. Army Pfc. James Warner, of Cameron, N.C., prepares to fuel an OH-58 Kiowa Warrior while Spc. Sean Shuttleworth, of Columbia, S.C., mans the fire extinguisher on Forward Operating Base Fenty, February 22, 2012. Both Soldiers are petroleum specialists serving with Task Force Saber, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Eric Pahon, Task Force Poseidon Public Affairs
Dust landing
Members of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, come in for a dust landing with Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 25th Stryker Brigade Combat Team during an air assault training mission led by the Kandahar Air Wing and Afghan National Army in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on Feb. 29, 2012. DoD photo by Sgt. Daniel Schroeder, U.S. Army.
Snow covered mountains
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kevin Nolan, pilot in command with Task Force Talon and Chief Warrant Officer 2 John Booth fly a UH-60 Black Hawk near the snow covered mountains in Regional Command East, Parwan province area south of Bagram Airfield for a reenlistment ceremony.
A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter receives an aerial refueling from a MC-130E aircraft during Emerald Warrior, Duke Field, Fla., March 6, 2012. The primary purpose of Emerald Warrior is to exercise special operations components in urban and irregular warfare settings to support combatant commanders in theater campaigns. Emerald Warrior leverages lessons from Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and other historical lessons to provide better trained and ready forces to combatant commanders. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tony R. Ritter/Released)
120305-N-SO729-450 EAST CHINA SEA (March 5, 2012) An AV-8B Harrier jet assigned to Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 31 lands on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). Essex is the lead ship of the only forward-deployed amphibious ready group. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Adam M. Bennett/Released)
I'd hate to be sitting at the back of this line.
03/07/2012
FALCON FORMATION
F-16 Fighting Falcons demonstrate an "Elephant Walk" as they taxi down a runway during an exercise on Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, March 2, 2012. The air crews are assigned to the 35th and 80th Fighter Squadrons, the 8th Fighter Wing, Kunsan Air Base; the 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing, Hill Air Force Base, Utah; the 55th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, the 20th Fighter Wing, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C.; and the 38th Fighter Group of the South Korean Air Force. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brittany Auld
03/07/2012
FALCON FORMATION
F-16 Fighting Falcons demonstrate an "Elephant Walk" as they taxi down a runway during an exercise on Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, March 2, 2012. The air crews are assigned to the 35th and 80th Fighter Squadrons, the 8th Fighter Wing, Kunsan Air Base; the 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing, Hill Air Force Base, Utah; the 55th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, the 20th Fighter Wing, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C.; and the 38th Fighter Group of the South Korean Air Force. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brittany Auld
I was going to say something last night but figured it was my firewall blocking the images.Gatordev,
All I am seeing is IMG icons....no pics:
re: "Yup, I'm old enough to remember "Rosie the Riveter", rationing cards, Victory Bond stamp booklets, stomping empty food cans for metal drives, tending Victory (veggie) Gardens, sending/receiving V-mail...etc. Flaps, you old enough to 'member?"
i was born in august of '46, bzb.
which means i was conceived in dec of '45 or about 3 minutes after dad got back from germany.
i was born in august of '46, bzb.
which means i was conceived in dec of '45 or about 3 minutes after dad got back from germany.
Some great HD aerial footage of the USNTPS fleet-
That's weird because it's showing up on NMCI. Let's try this again...
Hidden in Plain View During WW II Lockheed (unbelievable 1940s pictures). This is a version of special effects during the 1940's. I have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.
Before...
After..
The person that provided these pictures said she got an interesting story about someone's mother who worked at Lockheed, and she as a younger child, remembers all this. She says that to this day, these are the first pictures of it she's seen.
Another person who lived in the area talked about as being a boy, watching it all be set up like a movie studio production. They had fake houses, trees, etc. and moved parked cars around so it looked like a residential area from the skies overhead.
�I lived in North Long Beach during World War II, I was 13 years old. (1940) The Long Beach airport was nearLakewood, CA. There was a large Boeing Plant there. If you would drive down Carson St. going south you could drive under the camouflage netting.� Ed Pollard
I am 85 and had much of my pilot training in Calif. I have been under this net and have seen it from the air. During preflight training I rode a bus under the net and was very surprised as I didn't know it was there. It was strong enough to walk on and they hired people to ride bicycles and move around as if they lived there to make it look authentic. Warren Holmgreen Jr
�I lived in North Long Beach during World War II, I was 13 years old. (1940) The Long Beach airport was nearLakewood, CA. There was a large Boeing Plant there. If you would drive down Carson St. going south you could drive under the camouflage netting.� Ed Pollard
I am 85 and had much of my pilot training in Calif. I have been under this net and have seen it from the air. During preflight training I rode a bus under the net and was very surprised as I didn't know it was there. It was strong enough to walk on and they hired people to ride bicycles and move around as if they lived there to make it look authentic. Warren Holmgreen Jr
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