aluminumovercast

[aluminumovercast]

Crew member of USS TEXAS BB-35 sitting on one of her ten 14 inch guns.

Photographed sometime in the fall of 1917.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: TXPWD_1988-143-22

[aluminumovercast]

HMS Edinburgh, 1882

Arguably the world's first modern battleships, the Colossus class had an unusual en echelon turret placement amidship.

[aluminumovercast]

I know organization of the bomb groups can get kinda confusing so here's some diagrams I found to help. l've also included a diagram of what a "Combat Box" looks like on left, note that "Coffin Corner" aka "Purple Heart Corner" with the red box in the low element is who usually takes the most losses. For a given mission, typically only three of the four squadrons will fly and even then not all crews will be flying.

Heres a diagram of the colors and markings specifically for 100th. This also highlights the four different squadrons within the 100th bombardment group and highlights their specific colors.

Here is a couple more diagrams that show the meaning of the different symbols and particular colors/markings for specific B-17 bombardment groups.

The reason we see silver B-17s near the end war, as seen in Part 9 of MOTA, is because those aircraft hadn’t been painted. When they came off the production line during the war, the shiny metal was painted drab green to camouflage them while parked on the ground. After securing air superiority, there was no real need to start painting them and so they started to leave them silver.

Check out the source document for these diagrams for tons more information regarding the colors of bombardment groups in the 8th AF.

[aluminumovercast]

Sigmar Polke - Agate Windows in Grossmünster, Zurich, 2006

[aluminumovercast]

[aluminumovercast]

lena aires

[aluminumovercast]

alexis doyle

[aluminumovercast]

alexis doyle

[aluminumovercast]

SOOBIN ♡ 240405 MUSIC BANK INTERVIEW

[aluminumovercast]

USS MISSOURI (BB-63) firing her main battery near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, during Caribbean amphibious maneuvers.

Note: "floatplanes on the ship's catapults. Planes and catapults were removed in May 1949. USS POCONO (AGC-16) is in the right background."

Date: March 1949

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-706922

[aluminumovercast]

An American G.I. leans out his tent to shake hands with a dog in Luxembourg’s frozen landscape during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945.

[aluminumovercast]

Bloodhounds | S01E03

Korean Drama - 2023, 8 episodes

Episodes | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Tencent | Youku | Netflix

[aluminumovercast]

it's been a hot minute (three years)

[aluminumovercast]

Barbara Stanwyck c. 1940.

[aluminumovercast]

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

[aluminumovercast]

[aluminumovercast]

Beautiful street art mural done by artist Royyal Dog featuring Aaliyah, Left Eye, Whitney Houston Amy Winehouse and Selena located 7677 W Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.