Warbirds of WWII 2007 (56K Death)
Posted: 2007-06-05 10:27pm
Hey folks, these are the pics from the MAAM 2007 Warbirds of WWII show. I had to re-size a lot of this, so some quality was lost, so if you want a particular image in ultra high-res drop me a line and I'll get it to you. Otherwise enjoy!
...and to answer your question in advance, no there are not any R. Lee Ermey pics this year.
Hot C-47 action:
Complete with paras!
Scale model of CV-38 Shangri La:
TBMs:
No. 1:
No. 2:
B-25 Briefing Time:
taxing:
The other Mitchell present:
It's a plane! It's a boat! It's a flying boat!
P-40:
Head-on:
Where's there's one, there's often two:
Some sort of Soviet aircraft, I think it's some sort of Yak, but I'm probably wrong:
An old Neptune:
The P-47D, the fat joke virtually writes itself:
You may recognize these next two from virtually every war movie using the Japanese ever, wonderful conversion jobs really:
A "Kate":
A "Val":
The SJN was converted to look like an SBD-2 Dauntless, and it did a pretty good job:
P-51:
Now for the trainer montage:
(this asshole wouldn't move, sorry)
I find myself thinking of Broomstick as I rushed to shoot this taxing:
B-17 Yankee Lady taxing:
Now for the weapons the re-enactors brought along. First off, artillery:
Mortar M3 halftrack, IIRC it's an 81mm mortar.
Ammo:
75mm pack howitzer:
German pieces, IIRC they're 105mm:
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The poor-mans MLRS:
What did the Americans and Germans share? AAA of course:
German 40mm:
American 40mm:
German 20mm:
German twin MG34 AA mount:
US Quad .50 Cal mount:
US .30 Cal on AA mount:
Crazy Japanese gun, can't get an ID on this:
Let's all go tank hunting!:
US 57mm AT gun:
Pak37 IIRC:
Moving onto weapons spreads, let's begin with the British encompassing Lee-enfields complete with rifle grenades, a Thompson SMG, and a Sten SMG:
The famous Bren:
From there onto German weapons:
MG-42 and what I think is a ZB-26:
MG-34 and other tools:
Gehwer-43, excuse Sgt. Schultz:
And back to the US:
This spread has everything, had to get it from two different angles to do it any amount of justice:
A Bazooka and a BAR:
Needs more BAR, M1 Carbine in far right:
M1903 Springfield, Shotgun, and Thompson SMG:
Water-cooled .50 caliber:
US 82nd Para with Johnson rifle, rare find really:
Some quick Russian guns, mostly Mosin-Nagants, with a PPS-43 on top and a mystery gun (posibly a Tokarev?) at the bottom:
Another ID request:
Ah, the good 'ol Maxim guns:
Oh, and now on to vehicle spam:
A German scout car, it's so cute:
75mm short-barrelled assault gun halftrack:
Vanilla halftrack:
T-34 converted to look like a Tiger, it seems so unholy:
US M8 Greyhound scout:
Why does this picture just scream "SHEP!" at me?
Last, but not least. There are times when life is just too funny:
...and to answer your question in advance, no there are not any R. Lee Ermey pics this year.
Hot C-47 action:
Complete with paras!
Scale model of CV-38 Shangri La:
TBMs:
No. 1:
No. 2:
B-25 Briefing Time:
taxing:
The other Mitchell present:
It's a plane! It's a boat! It's a flying boat!
P-40:
Head-on:
Where's there's one, there's often two:
Some sort of Soviet aircraft, I think it's some sort of Yak, but I'm probably wrong:
An old Neptune:
The P-47D, the fat joke virtually writes itself:
You may recognize these next two from virtually every war movie using the Japanese ever, wonderful conversion jobs really:
A "Kate":
A "Val":
The SJN was converted to look like an SBD-2 Dauntless, and it did a pretty good job:
P-51:
Now for the trainer montage:
(this asshole wouldn't move, sorry)
I find myself thinking of Broomstick as I rushed to shoot this taxing:
B-17 Yankee Lady taxing:
Now for the weapons the re-enactors brought along. First off, artillery:
Mortar M3 halftrack, IIRC it's an 81mm mortar.
Ammo:
75mm pack howitzer:
German pieces, IIRC they're 105mm:
[/img]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a313/ ... ure017.jpg[/img]
The poor-mans MLRS:
What did the Americans and Germans share? AAA of course:
German 40mm:
American 40mm:
German 20mm:
German twin MG34 AA mount:
US Quad .50 Cal mount:
US .30 Cal on AA mount:
Crazy Japanese gun, can't get an ID on this:
Let's all go tank hunting!:
US 57mm AT gun:
Pak37 IIRC:
Moving onto weapons spreads, let's begin with the British encompassing Lee-enfields complete with rifle grenades, a Thompson SMG, and a Sten SMG:
The famous Bren:
From there onto German weapons:
MG-42 and what I think is a ZB-26:
MG-34 and other tools:
Gehwer-43, excuse Sgt. Schultz:
And back to the US:
This spread has everything, had to get it from two different angles to do it any amount of justice:
A Bazooka and a BAR:
Needs more BAR, M1 Carbine in far right:
M1903 Springfield, Shotgun, and Thompson SMG:
Water-cooled .50 caliber:
US 82nd Para with Johnson rifle, rare find really:
Some quick Russian guns, mostly Mosin-Nagants, with a PPS-43 on top and a mystery gun (posibly a Tokarev?) at the bottom:
Another ID request:
Ah, the good 'ol Maxim guns:
Oh, and now on to vehicle spam:
A German scout car, it's so cute:
75mm short-barrelled assault gun halftrack:
Vanilla halftrack:
T-34 converted to look like a Tiger, it seems so unholy:
US M8 Greyhound scout:
Why does this picture just scream "SHEP!" at me?
Last, but not least. There are times when life is just too funny:
