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"USAAF P-51 Mustangs on the way to their base on the recently captured Japanese island of Iwo Jima (1945)."

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The pic is obviously photoshoped but there’s an article in wiki about Owen J. Baggett. He’s credited with shooting down the Japanese plane but it was learned post war that the Japanese AF did not report any losses that day in that incident. I’ve read that the IJN and the Japanese AF didn’t report losses in both ships and planes in battles with Allied Forces frequently.

Whether it happened or not, it’s still a cool pic. I’d like to believe that it happened, maybe it’s that because I’m a hopeless romantic at heart like Rick Blaine in Casablanca. And maybe partially I still believe it’s a true story because really, who’d want to report to the Emperor that one of his aircraft was shot down by a round eye with a pistol dangling from a parachute. No doubt there’d be some hari-kari involved by someone.
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Cool is the heavily weathered A6M3 Zero. Not cool is the mismatched chute & paratrooper. Lunacy is the reflector gunsight image. Idiocy is the crosshair gunsight on top of the reflector gunsight.

On the whole...A less than cool pic.
Subpar Photoshopping.

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"French pre-dreads! The battleship Jaureguiberry. Dat tumblehome[4500 x 2681]"

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Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch
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Explanation: Sixty years ago, near the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers "lit the candle" and sent Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard arcing into space atop a Redstone rocket. His cramped space capsule was dubbed Freedom 7. Broadcast live to a global television audience, the historic Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Florida at 9:34 a.m. Eastern Time on May 5, 1961. The flight of Freedom 7, the first space flight by an American, followed less than a month after the first human venture into space by Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The 15 minute sub-orbital flight achieved an altitude of 116 miles and a maximum speed of 5,134 miles per hour. As Shepard looked back near the peak of Freedom 7's trajectory, he could see the outlines of the west coast of Florida, Lake Okeechobe in central Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Bahamas. Shepard would later view planet Earth from a more distant perspective and walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission.

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"North American NAA-57 Harvard sold to France in the 1930s and then captured by the Germans. The Luftwaffe used these planes as trainers and glider tugs. This photo was taken at Guyancourt, France, early 1944."

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Rudel and Soviet battleship Marat in Kronstadt autumn 1941 ( artist´s impression )

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"Perspective."

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"HMS Hawkins, a 'proto-heavy cruiser' armed with 7.5-inch guns, underway, date unknown [1613 x 1296]."

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"Ireland’s first Naval Ship Muirchú (formally the Helga)."

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"[2047 x 731] USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) in transit through the Panama Canal, 1930s."

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Cool is the heavily weathered A6M3 Zero. Not cool is the mismatched chute & paratrooper. Lunacy is the reflector gunsight image. Idiocy is the crosshair gunsight on top of the reflector gunsight.

On the whole...A less than cool pic.
Subpar Photoshopping.
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You say less than cool, I say cool. As far as I’m concerned it’s cool enough. I do understand and appreciate your observations, but I’m going to have to go with my initial description and maintain my position that’s it’s a cool pic.

"On the Plains of Hesitation, lies the blackened bones of countless millions who,
at the dawn of victory sat down to rest, and resting died"....
(Adlai Stevenson to Harry Truman on discussing the pros and cons of dropping the big one, or so I'm told)

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Well, it is "art" after all, so there will be varying opinions on it. What is cool for on person, is not necessarily cool for another.

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The Mufti of Jerusalem met with Adolf Hitler in 1941. According to Motadel, some of Hitler's Muslim allies shared the Nazi leader's hatred of Jews.

Tens of thousands of Muslims fought for the Nazis in World War Two.

How Nazis courted the Islamic world during WWII | DW | 13.11.2017

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"Texas National Guard P-51 Mustangs flying over battleship USS Texas, 1948. (2048x1771)"

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"[1018 x 616]HMAS Perth likely after her 1941 refit."

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"Sikorsky YR-4B of the 1st Air Commando Group after the first combat helicopter evacuation, Burma - 1944."

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"Supermarine Seafire from 801 NAS crash-lands on HMS Implacable, Pacific, 1945. [1362x1171]"

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Eric "Winkle" Brown, famous test pilot, called the Seafire a marverlous plane that should never have tried to land on a carrier.

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They persisted with the narrow LG, not sure why. The bloke in black in the pic...middle of the pic...so many things running through his head...and down his leg...

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