Images

Crash Landings: USAAF P-51 Mustangs, England, 1944-45

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These U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) photos were not released for publication until the middle of 1946, a year after the war in Europe officially ended. One reason for the late release of the photos is that many did not begin arriving ‘state side’ until the end of 1945, remaining with their respective units until the units returned to the U.S. or were disbanded.

U.S. Army Air Force photo.

P–51 (36845), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 18JUL1944.

USAAF photo.

Personnel retrieve the body of the pilot of P–51 #44-14034, 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 30JUL1944.

USAAF photo.

Bent props caused by crash landing, after a ground attack run over enemy territory, Summer 1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 #41-3940, 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 16AUG1944.

USAAF photo.

P-51 ‘Hanger Queen’ gets scrapped by the 353rd Fighter Group, 04SEP1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 #14381, 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 11SEP1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 #13891, 364th Fighter Group Base, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 11OCT1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 ‘Rugged Rebel’ (44-13686), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 17OCT1944.

USAAF photo.

8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 03NOV1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 ‘G.I. Buzz Buggy’ (14703), 364th Fighter Group Base, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 09NOV1944.

USAAF photo.

Probably not caused by a crash landing, P–51 ‘Frances Ann’ (44-13557), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 08DEC1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 #44-13933, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 17DEC1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 ‘Dana Kay’ (44-11567), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 15JAN1945.

U.S. Army Air Force photo.

P–51 (43-25066), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-365, Honnington, England, 22APR1945.

U.S. Army Air Force photo.

P–51 ‘Lucky Leaky II’ (2103363), 353rd Fighter Group, crashed on English base, 02MAY1945.

USAAF photo.

P–51 ‘Boogie’s Burner’ (44-14190), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 16MAY1945.

USAAF photo.

P–51 ‘Butch 3rd’ (414774), 353rd Fighter Group, on its English base, 24JUL1945.

Vehicle I-D: APACHE TO MUSTANG

Technology

Iraq 2003: Armor Battle Damage

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U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) photo.

Iraqi MTLB destroyed, 22MAR2003.

DoD photo.

Destroyed Iraqi MTLB armed with ZU-23-2 gun system, 22MAR2003.

DoD photo.

Destroyed Iraqi T-62 along Highway 6, notice the hull bottom has been blown out and the turret is no longer centered, 04APR2003.

DoD photo.

Chinese made Type 69 burning near the An Nu’maniyah Bridge/Hwy-27, 02APR2003.

DoD photo.

Same Type 69, different angle.

DoD photo.

Same Type 69, photo taken 05APR2003. It should be noted that the Iraqi army called the Chinese Type 69 a T-55B.

DoD photo.

A USMC M1A1 abandoned and scuttled just outside Jaman Al Juburi, first week of April 2003.

DoD photo.

Same M1A1. In the heat of battle if a tank was not recoverable then it was destroyed by its own crew to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. The irony is that eight years later the U.S. government delivered to Iraq upgraded M1A1s, and in-turn the Iraqi government gave several to pro-Iranian militias.

DoD photo.

Another angle on the same scuttled tank.

DoD photo.

While it might not look it, the information that came with this photo states that Marine Corps M1A1 #578677 is considered destroyed. It does look like it is completely bogged down in mud up to its fenders, and being stripped of whatever can be stripped, just outside Sayyid-Abd, 06APR2003.

DoD photo.

Also at Sayyid-Abd, this USMC M88A2 ‘Hell’s Wrecker’ was written-off.

DoD photo.

Another view of Hell’s Wrecker.

DoD photo.

U.S. Marines check-out an abandoned Iraqi T-72, along Route 1, 08APR2003.

DoD photo.

U.S. Marines find a dozen abandoned T-72s in a farm area of Iraq (exact location not given), 12APR2003.

DoD photo.

Notice the warpage of the barrel of the 12.7mm machine gun on this burned-out T-72, near Al Iskandariyah (Alexandria), 13APR2003.

DoD photo.

Iraqi Type 69 (notice headlight groups on both fenders) destroyed just outside Mosul, 13APR2003.

DoD photo.

Destroyed T-62, no location given, 13APR2003.

DoD photo.

Destroyed Type 69 and T-55 based recovery/engineer vehicle, possibly near the An Nu’maniyah Bridge along Highway 27, 13APR2003. These are the same vehicles seen burning in this article’s header photo.

DoD photo.

A field of destroyed dreams, 16APR2003. Type 69s and two types of recovery/engineer vehicles. Chinese made Type 69s can be identified by the headlight housings on each front fender. T-55s have a single headlight group on the front slope.

DoD photo.

25JUN2003, U.S. Army soldiers off-load ammo from a damaged and almost completely buried T-72, outside of Fallujah.

DoD photo.

Battle damaged USMC M1A1 sitting in Kuwait, waiting to be sent back to the United States. Information with the photo did not give details about the damage. 14AUG2003.

DoD photo.

U.S. Marines use a battle damaged Iraqi BTR-50 for fire response training, sometime in 2004. This was the fate of many damaged and captured Iraqi armored vehicles.

Vehicle I-D: U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND JAPANESE MILITARY VEHICLES FOR IRAQ, AGAIN!

IRAQI HUEY

IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION (including the M1A1M)

IRAQI GREYHOUND السلوقي العراقي

Influenza

Operation Jupiter: U.S. Army making its own CoViD Nano-Vaccine!

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U.S. Army/WRAIR Photo by Mike Walters. This image shows retired Colonel Francis Holinaty, the first person to take the U.S. Army’s nanoparticle vaccine, 06APR2021.

For proof the “authorized for emergency use only” (they are not USFDA ‘approved’, there is a legal difference) so-called vaccines are no good, today, the U.S. Army (USA) revealed that it has entered phase one of testing (on humans in Maryland) for its own coronavirus vaccine!

Photo by Mike Walters.

The USA’s vaccine uses a Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle (SpFN, aka spiff-in), ‘boosted’ with Army Liposome Formulation Q (ALF Q).

The military-grade nanoparticle vaccine is being created by Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) in Maryland, and was started back in January 2020 (that’s correct, before the CoViD pandemic truly hit the United States, thus indicating the Trump Administration was on-top of things). This information was revealed in October 2020 (somehow not reported by main-stream anti-Trump news media) by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC), stating that a nanoparticle vaccine had been developed and that testing on non-human animals, by the U.S. Army Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), was underway and showing good results.

USAMRDC also revealed that other types of vaccines were under development as a result of President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed. The October 2020 announcement also revealed the U.S. military knew where coronavirus came from and that there were going to be many new variants to deal with: “We are trying to not just be in a reactive mode but to be anticipating the next coronavirus that might emerge from the animal reservoir.”-Doctor Kayvon Modjarrad, Director of USAMRIID, 21OCT2020

Vaccine Fail: Once again, VACCINES ARE KILLING PEOPLE! GOVERNMENTS NOW GOING AFTER HEALTHCARE WORKERS WHO REFUSE THE SHOT!

Vaccine Fail: Why are military personnel refusing The Shot?

ChikRisk 2021: U.S. ARMY CONTINUES TO WARN OF NEW PANDEMIC

Operation Jupiter 2019: MEASLES PANDEMIC SPREAD BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, OR EVIL BILDERBERG VACCINE PROGRAM?

Operation Jupiter 2015: A SMALL PART OF A LARGER MILITARY OPERATION SPREADING DISEASE AT A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU!

Kit Bashing, Technology

A-10C: Primer Black is the new Zinc-Yellow?

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U.S. Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

In 2019, several A-10Cs underwent wing replacement, which included new paint, by the Ogden Air Logistics Complex on Hill Air Force Base (AFB), Utah.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

They were the last of 173 A-10s to get the new wing upgrade. I’m not sure if this if the primer paint as most A-10s I’ve seen get re-painted are primered with a zinc yellow paint.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

A hanger full of stripped A-10s waiting for their new wings, and new clothes.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

A naked A-10C, with brand new wing, gets towed to the paint shop.

A new shark-mouth to go with the new wing for this 23d Wing Flying Tigers A-10, home based on Moody AFB, Georgia, 09JUL2019.

Perhaps there were too many A-10s to paint as by December 2019, painters on Hill AFB began using robots to strip them naked.

A-10C: AFGHAN PHASE INSPECTION

Vehicle I-D: A-10 South East Asia camo

Kit Bashing, Technology

Bare Metal: New ‘Patina’ style F-16 Camo?

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U.S. Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

On 22MAR2021, a patina camo-ed F-16 took to the sky over Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Whoops, perhaps the pilot was a little to anxious to get airborne as the F-16 was in need of new clothes after undergoing depot level rebuild.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

This was a test flight (Functional Check Flight aka Zoom flight) by the 514th Flight Test Squadron, after repairs/modifications by the Ogden Air Logistics Complex.

USAF photo by Todd Cromar.

On 16FEB2021, an ‘elected’ official was shown the bare-assed tail end of our stripped down F-16 in the Ogden Air Logistics Complex (OALC). Hopefully the Congressman was able to control his-self.

USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw.

April 2020, a Secretary of the Air Force gets a tour of the OALC, notice the partially primered F-16 in the background.

USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 23JAN2019.

In January 2019, a different Secretary of the Air Force was lectured on how Utahans rebuild cockpits of naked F-16 two seaters.

Vehicle I-D: NEW CLOTHES FOR A TEXAS F-16

Vehicle I-D: NEW F-16 WRAITH! NIGHT FIGHTER WW-2 STYLE!

Kit Bashing, Technology

Re-Build a 1:1 scale F-15 Canopy

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“We are set up to be part of the sustainment effort for F-15 aircraft canopies. We are part of the team that does the replacement parts like the canopies, stabilizers or any of the other flight controls that keep F-15 aircraft flying.”-Alberto Garza-Mayer, 572nd Commodities Maintenance Squadron, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, February 2021

U.S. Air Force photo by Joseph Mather, 11FEB2021.

“After a while, flying during storms or other types of weather conditions, the canopy will develop hazing to a point it will not be serviceable anymore and will need to be replaced.”-Alberto Garza-Mayer, 572nd Commodities Maintenance Squadron, Robins AFB, Georgia, February 2021

USAF photo by Joseph Mather, 11FEB2021.

“The canopies will get disassembled and de-painted. After it is disassembled, we do a frame inspection check to see if the canopy is still serviceable.” -Alberto Garza-Mayer, 572nd Commodities Maintenance Squadron, Robins AFB, Georgia, February 2021

“Once the canopy goes through its necessary repairs, it is resealed where the canopy sits onto the airframe. Then all the holes are located to drill. There are about 3-hundred fastener holes that hold the canopy to the frame. We drill the holes, then trim it to fit within technical order tolerances, make sure it fits, do a final inspection, and install it onto the frame.” -Alberto Garza-Mayer, 572nd Commodities Maintenance Squadron, Robins AFB, Georgia, February 2021

“Last year, we averaged six or seven canopies a month, so we were in the 80-plus canopies completion range. This year, the numbers have been lowered, so we have been doing around four canopies a month.” -Alberto Garza-Mayer, 572nd Commodities Maintenance Squadron, Robins AFB, Georgia, February 2021

USAF photo by Airman First Class Anthony Clingerman, 18NOV2020.

At Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, November 2020, 48th Equipment Maintenance Squadron performed maintenance on a F-15 canopy.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Anthony Clingerman, 18NOV2020.

This included buffing-out the canopy.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Rebeckah Medeiros, 23JUL2020.

Back in July 2020, 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron personnel at Kadena Air Base (AB), in Japan, were building their own F-15C canopy braces.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Rebeckah Medeiros, 23JUL2020.

This involved using Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) program to shape aluminum stock.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Rebeckah Medeiros, 23JUL2020.

The aluminum braces are necessary to prevent warpage of the F-15 canopy.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Rebeckah Medeiros, 23JUL2020.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Matthew B. Fredericks, 19SEP2019.

Canopy inspection on F-15C, Kadena AB, September 2019.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Alexandre Montes.

What’s left of a F-15 ‘gate guard’ canopy after 2018’s Hurricane Michael hit Tyndall AFB, Florida. (Photo taken in February 2019)

USAF photo by Naoto Anazawa, 24OCT2018.

Under the canopy, Kadena AB, October 2018.

USAF photo by Naoto Anazawa, 24OCT2018.

Oregon Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar.

An Oregon Air National Guard F-15, from the 173rd Fighter Wing. minus its canopy during phased inspection, October 2014.

Oregon ANG photo by Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar.

Vehicle I-D: IDAHO’S TIGERS & THUNDERBOLTS BLAST THE SKIES OVER FLORIDA!

Vehicle I-D: F-15EX HAS ARRIVED! COMMANDER SAYS “IT’S AN EX-CITING DAY!”

Vehicle I-D: KADENA EAGLE

1:1 SCALE WIND TUNNEL MODELS?

Technology

Silly-vilian airliner brought back from the dead, to serve in the military!

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U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez.

On 03MAR2021, a mummified civilian airliner was hauled off to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, drafted for use as an emergency response trainer for the U.S. military.

USAF photo by R.J. Oriez.

The 40 miles trip from Wilmington Air Park took three days. Its new home is the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine.

USAF photo by R.J. Oriez.

N798AX was a 767-200 series, last used by Germany’s DHL, first used by Japan’s All Nippon Airways, then Hokaido International Airlines, then by ABX Air in the United States before being leased to DHL. DHL used the 767 for just under a year before its retirement, N789AX was just over 34 years old when ‘retired’. In November 2020, N789AX was broken-up at Wilmington Air Park, Ohio.

USAF photo by R.J. Oriez.

It is not a Boeing 707, or a KC-135 (which itself is not a 707). It is a Boeing 767, and will be used to mimic the military version of the 767; the KC-46.

USAF photo by R.J. Oriez.

The zombie 767 will join a zombie KC-135, which was delivered to School of Aerospace Medicine at the end of March 2020, to train flight nurses, medevac technicians and critical care air-transport team members in the movement and treatment of patients onboard aircraft.

USAF photo by R.J. Oriez.

The School of Aerospace Medicine also uses a zombie C-130, and five other aircraft, for the same training.

USAF photo by R.J. Oriez.

TaCaMO: One plane controlling the nation’s nuclear arsenal!

Vehicle I-D: C-54 SKYMASTER, AN AIRBORNE WILLY WONKA?

Influenza, Technology

One Ring to Rule Them, Big Brotherism in the name of fighting a Pandemic?

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31 March 2021 /23:33-UTC-07 Tango 06 (12 Farvardin 1400/18 Sha’ban 1442/20 Ren-Chen 4719)

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Third Class Isaak Martinez.

Quietly, around the 15th of March, 2021, the crew aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex-LHD 2 placed shiny black rings on their fingers. The rings came from the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), which claimed they were part of a new way to keep people healthy.

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Isaak Martinez.

It’s part of a U.S. Navy (USN) study called Crew Readiness, Endurance, and Watchstanding (CREW). The official reason for the CREW ring is so leadership can monitor essential personnel who are not getting enough sleep: “We want CREW to be a decision support tool so that you can understand how fatigued people are and how much sleep they are or are not getting. We can then determine how those fatigue levels correspond with the health of the individual so that we can provide a way or course of action to offset some of the risks that come with fatigue and poor health.”-Doctor Rachel Markwald, NHRC

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Isaak Martinez.

The crew of the USS Essex are the first to take part in the study. Supposedly, the rings can also detect when a person’s performance is down due to being infected, it is hoped the rings might be able to detect infection before a person realizes they are sick. The CREW monitoring system can also be used in bracelets. Doctor Markwald claims she’s already getting good feedback from crewmembers.

According to a recent U.S. Naval Institute report, the ‘sleep’ monitoring program is an effort to prevent major fatal accidents. From my personal experience in the military, why don’t the higher-ups just admit they push their personnel too hard.

Pandemic Shenanigans: MORE FALSE POSITIVES! J&J VAX UNDER STUDY FOR INFERTILITY! SHUTDOWNS FALSELY BLAMED ON COVID!

Operation Jupiter: OPERATION COVID-19 IS FOR REAL

International

Biden’s War: U.S. forces enter Syria, again

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31 March 2021 (00:00-UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Farvardin 1400/17 Sha’ban 1442/19 Xin-Mao(2nd month) 4719

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Torrance Saunders.

Before El Presidente Biden’s Secretary of State went to the United Nations, demanding that Syria open up its borders with unfriendly neighbors in the name of humanitarian aid, U.S. Army mechanized infantry (1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division) crossed into Syria during the first couple of weeks of March 2021.