Wolfheze Landing Zone, 18 September 1944 — British Horsa gliders lie scattered across the fields on the second day of Operation Market Garden, delivering airborne troops into the fight for Arnhem.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
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Shoka Airfield in Shoka (now Changhua), Taiwan under US Navy carrier aircraft attack, 12 Oct 1944
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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Destroyed Hiroshima Castle, Hiroshima, Japan, 1945
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, Aug 1945; note approximate hypocenter of the atomic detonation marked on the photograph
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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Aerial view of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands with the relatively flat island plain beyond, Feb or Mar 1945 as the battle raged on. Note landing ships beached at right.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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More than 100 9th Air Force Martin B-26 Marauders, Christmas afternoon, dropped their bomb loads on the heart of St. Vith, Belgium, the important road junction and communications center captured by the Germans in their counter-offensive. Marauders, Havocs and Invaders bombed bridges, roads, towns, and strong-points. Christmas day in a part of a systematic plan to isolate German troops from their supply sources.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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The city of Dresden from air after the Allied bombing, 1945.
Vertical aerial photograph of Horsa gliders of 6th Airborne Div, 'coup de main' force (D Company, 2nd Ox & Bucks Light Infantry plus sappers) near the bridge over the Caen Canal at Benouville, subsequently known as 'Pegasus Bridge', June 1944.
An aerial view of Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport in July 1945, showing light damage following the Allied takeover of the city during the final months of the war.
The airport later became one of the most significant airfields of the pos-twar era.
It is, after all, an aerial view. The USS Saratoga seen from an SBD Dauntless, Nov 1943.
Almost a dron view! USS Enterprise at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, July 1942. Note anti-torpedo nets.
