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[RustyRelics]

A WWII Victory medal, and a Good Conduct medal, new to my collection. An ETO medal and National Defense medal are going to be in my collection soon, as well.





Two B-17 E/L bombers out of a formation of twenty, being escorted by P-63 Fighter planes head towards the Ruhr Industrial region of Germany on a bombing run.

 

[Madmox]

Funny to see the WWII plane pics. I just picked up these a few days ago. One of these days I’ll get them onto the Bay. A set of WWII aircraft gauges. They were used in the following planes B-17, B-24, B-29, B-25, B-26, A-20, P-38, P-39, P-40, and P-47 and P-51s. I wish there was a way to narrow it down further. I guess it MAY be possible with the serial numbers but that seems like a hell of a rabbit hole. Though they are all 1943 manufacture

 

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Funny to see the WWII plane pics. I just picked up these a few days ago. One of these days I’ll get them onto the Bay. A set of WWII aircraft gauges. They were used in the following planes B-17, B-24, B-29, B-25, B-26, A-20, P-38, P-39, P-40, and P-47 and P-51s. I wish there was a way to narrow it down further. I guess it MAY be possible with the serial numbers but that seems like a hell of a rabbit hole. Though they are all 1943 manufacture

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I had two great-great-uncles who served in the WWII USAAF. Donald Sexhaure was a B-25 Mitchell pilot who served in the ETO. I don't know much about him. My other Great-great-uncle, was a B-26 Marauder Radio gunner, who served with the 391st Bomb Group, 574th Bomb Squadron. He was on the planes as they went over Omaha Beach in the predawn hours of D-Day, and remarked about all of the flashes of the bombs being dropped. On Dec. 23 1944, his plane was shot down, and he was wounded and taken prisoner by the krauts. He survived the war, and lived as a chicken farmer until his death in the 1970s from a bee sting.

 

[Tom_Restorer]

In 1915, these two bullets collided during the Battle of Gallipoli. The chances of this happening was 1 in 1,000,000,000

1 in 1,000,000,000... pfffffff. If I would have be on this battle field, the chances that this two bullets collide in the middle of my body would have been 100%!

 

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