Posted 01-12-18 Six Hurricane Mark I's of No. 73 Squadron RAF, based at Rouvres, France, flying in loose echelon formation, c. 1939-40. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 01-18-18 APOD: Fireball in the Arctic (2017 Dec 25) Image Credit & Copyright: Yang Sutie. Taken the night after the Geminids Meteor Shower peaked, the astrophotographer's location was near Lovozero Lake in Murmansk, Russia, just north of the Arctic Circle.
Posted 01-26-18 The USS Clamagore SS-343 has a proud history of serving our nation. Commissioned at the end of WWII in 1945, this black & white photo shows the Clamagore in the 1950s. Source: Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum
Posted 02-01-18 Norway Frozen Nights! Photo Taken By Anton Eriksson (@antonerikssonphotography) On Instagram. Source: The Aurora Life
Posted 02-07-18 H-30 Grumman F8F Bearcat - IWM Duxford, UK 2017. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 02-19-18 Royal Air Force ace Albert Gerald Lewis climbs out of his plane after an air battle above England, 1940. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 02-24-18 APOD: Bow Tie Moon and Star Trails (2018 Feb 08). Image Credit & Copyright: Haitong Yu
Posted 03-02-18 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb 22, 2018) An F/A-18 Super Hornet, assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1, lands on the flight deck aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). US Navy photo by MC3 Rebekah A. Watkins
Posted 03-08-18 Source-Photo is My Life
Posted 03-14-18 HMS DREADNOUGHT
Posted 03-20-18 A rare type of aurora dubbed Steve, seen with the Milky Way over Childs Lake, Manitoba. Source: National Geographic (01-new-aurora-macdonald1HR.adapt.1900.1)
Posted 03-26-18 Six Hurricane Mark Is of No. 73 Squadron RAF, based at Rouvres, France, flying in loose echelon formation, c. 1939-40. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 03--31-18 Image Credit & Copyright: Jan Meyer
Posted 04-06-18 The QF 5.25 inch dual-purpose guns aboard the British battleship Prince of Wales. Source: Navy General Board
Posted 04-12-18 Beautiful Lenticular Clouds over Mt. Rainier, Washington State. Source: Fantastic things in the world
Posted 04-18-18 USS Augusta, USS Midway, USS Enterprise, USS Missouri, USS New York, USS Helena, and USS Macon in the Hudson River in New York, New York; 27 Oct 1945. Source: Warfare History Network
Posted 04-24-18 Landi Bradshaw Photography's lightning at sunset in Wyndham, Western Australia (26 February 2018). Source: Bureau of Meteorology
Posted 04-30-18 The French ironclad Gloire. Launched in 1859, she was the first oceangoing ironclad. Source: Navy General Board
Posted 05-05-18 Senja, Island, Norway. Source: World Magazine
Posted 05-11-18 IL-2. After the fight... Home. Source: Alexander Federov
Posted 05-22-18 APOD: Facing NGC 3344 (2018 Apr 13). Image Credit: ESA Hubble & Nasa
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Posted 06-02-18 APOD: Facing NGC 3344 (2018 Apr 13). Image Credit: ESA Hubble & Nasa
Posted 06-08-18 On the night of May 30, 1942, Britain launched its largest bombing raid so far in World War Two. Of the 1,047 bombers that flew, 41 were lost. On one of those bombers, the pilot’s bravery saved the lives of the crew on board. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 06-15-18 When The Sky Exploded In Finland! Photo Taken By Rayann Elzein. Source: The Aurora Life
Posted 06-21-18 Source: Pacific Battleship Center-Battleship USS Iowa
Posted 07--9-18 USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Source: Aircraft Carriers
Posted 07-26-18 Strong storms hit the coast. (Tybee Island, GA) Source: WSAV Chief Meteorologist Kris Allred
Posted 08-13-18 Kawanishi N1K1 Kyofu. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 08-30-18 Briksdalsbreen Glacier, Norway. Source :Fantastic Things in the World
Posted 09-14-18 Sailors of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28 prepare MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters to evacuate Naval Station Norfolk, Sept 11.
Posted 10-01-18 It's a beautiful Tybee morning. Source: MaryAnn Smith
Posted 10-18-18 U.S. Navy photo showing a confrontation between the USS Decatur (left) and PRC Warship 170 (right) in the South China Sea on Sunday, September 30, 2018. U.S. Navy Photo
Posted 11-05-18 Drombeg Stone Circle, Cork, Ireland by Stephen Long
Posted 01-08-18 B-17/G Fortresses of the 381st Bomb Group are escorted by a P-51B of the 354th Fighter Squadron, Summer-Fall 1944. Source: warhistoryonline
Posted 01-13-18 Norway Frozen Nights! Photo Taken By Anton Eriksson (@antonerikssonphotography) On Instagram. Source The Aurora Life
Posted 01-19-18 USS Arizona
Posted 01-27-18 Waterfall Of The Gods In Iceland! Photo Taken By (@torivarnaess) On Instagram. Source: The Aurora Life
Posted 02-02-18 393rd Fighter Squadron Lockheed P-38J Lightning, 1945. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 02-14-18 The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) transits the Arabian Sea. Source: Naval History & Heritage Command
Posted 02-20-18 A Show Stopper From Last Night (08-17-17) In Fort McMurray, Alberta. Photo Taken By Rusty Buffalo Photo.
Posted 02-26-18 USS Boxer, flagship for the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit team. Source: Naval History & Heritage Command
Posted 03-03-18 Shelf Cloud Sunset. Image Credit: Mike Barber 07-29-17
Posted 03-09-18 the man who flew this particular Wildcat was another very accomplished pilot named Ed O’Hare.
Posted 03-15-18 APOD: Duel Particle Beams in Herbig-Haro 24 (2018 Mar 11). Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage
Posted 03-21-18 Langley (CV 1), the legendary "Covered Wagon," was placed in commission 03-20-1922. She was the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier. Source: National Naval Aviation Museum
Posted 03-27-18 Beautiful Aurora in Alaska. Source: NTD Life
Posted 04-02-18 Source: cdrsalamander.blogspot
Posted 04-07-18 Source: Ken Martin From Connected to Ireland
Posted 04-13-18 An F2H-2P Banshee of Composite Squadron (VC) 62 pictured in flight over the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA 42) #OTD in 1953. Source: National Naval Aviation Museum
Posted 04-19-18 Two Way Traffic In Alberta. Photo Taken By Vaibhav Pandey. Source: The Aurora Life
Posted 04-25-18 U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress, assigned to the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., opens its drag chute during its arrival at Royal Air Force Base Darwin, Australia
Posted 05-01-18 Spring flowers Longwood Gardens Source: cntraveler
Posted 05-07-18 May 4. 1942 - Battle of the Coral Sea begins. Source: Pacific Battleship Center
Posted 05-12-18 APOD: Moon Halo over Stone Circle (2018 May 02). Image Credit & Copyright: Alyn Wallace Photography
Posted 05-23-18 USS Harry S. Truman, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) and USS Gerald R. Ford - CVN 78. Source: Aircraft Carriers
Posted 06-09-18 Nothing like the sunset over the ocean. Source: NTD Life
Posted 06-16-18 Source: Aero-Pictures
Posted 06-21-18 APOD: Moon Halo over Stone Circle (2018 May 02). Image Credit & Copyright: Alyn Wallace
Posted 06-29-18 The light cruiser St. Louis following the Battle of Kolombangara. Source: Navy General Board
Posted 07-12-18 Waterspouts over the ocean at sunset. Source: NTD Life
Posted 07-30-18 They visited the now-retired (ex) USS Kitty Hawk in search of replacement equipment for the BattleshipIowa. Source: Pacific Battleship Center-Battleship USS Iowa
Posted 08-16-18 Clouds above the California wildfires. This is at 30k feet. That's the sunset on the horizon. Source: Karron Lane
Posted 08-31-18 Allied planes dropping hundreds of paratroopers over the Rhine during Operation Varsity in March 1945. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 09-17-18 Mt. Rainier casting a shadow during a sunset. Source: Fantastic things in the world
Posted 10-04-18 U-459, sinking after being attacked. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 10-22-18 Saturn - October 30 2009 by Kevin M. Gill on Flickr
Posted 11-08-18 Lacey Lady, The B17 WWII Bomber, To Be Restored To Its Former Glory. Source: warhistoryonline
Posted 11-26-18 APOD Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona (2017 Aug 13) Credit & Copyright Miloslav Druckmuller (Brno U. of Tech), Martin Dietzel.Peter Aniol. Vojtech Rusin
Posted 01-03-18 Boeing Y1B-17 (pre-production version of the B-17) in flight [US Air Force] Source: warhistoryonline
Gorgeous Northern Lights Seen In Alaska! Photo Taken By Anthony Madden Photography. Source The Aurora Life
Posted 01-15-18 Jolly Rogers 103 by Antoine Crespin (tumblr_p2jtmoM28t1v3z4jao1_500)
Posted 01-20-18 Source: Photo is my life
Posted 01-29-18 USS CLOUES DE-265, decommissioned seventy-two years ago this day (nov 26, 2017). Source: USS Slater FB
Posted 02-03-18 APOD: Moonrise Eclipse (2018 Feb 02)Taken Jan 31, 2018 in India's Himalayan Mountains. Image Credit & Copyright: Neelam and Ajay Talwar
Posted 02-09-18 P-51D Mustangs of the 531st Fighter Squadron lined up at South Field, Iwo Jima, March 25, 1945. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 02-15-18 Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. Source: Fantastic things in the world
Posted 02--21-18 U.S. Marine Corps Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless of Marine Scouting Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241) in flight over Midway Atoll, in 1942-1943. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 02-27-18 Photo by emansphoto_ via IG. Source: Discover Tybee
Posted 03-05-18 Williams Field 1965 Source: Bob Lobojko VXE-6 ANTARTICDEVRON SIX
Posted 03-10-18 Beautiful sky this afternoon and a beautiful tree on our walk to feed the cows and donkeys. Photo cred- Heath ( my bride's first cousin twice removed)
Posted 03-22-18 Circle of joy. Source: Aurora Borealis Observatory
Posted 03-28-18 Happy St. Patrick's Day! May the Luck of the Irish be with all our sailors serving aboard U.S. Navy aircraft carriers Source: Aircraft Carriers 03-17-18
Posted 04-03-18 -Northern Lights Over Hatcher Pass In Palmer, Alaska. Photo Taken By Dimitri Smith. Source: The Aurora Life (01-05-18)
Posted 04-09-18 Source: Ricardo Gil
Posted 04-14-18 photo by @herwildwonder taken on north beach. Source: Discover Tybee Island
Posted 04-20-28 Doolittle Raid on tokyo Source: U.S. Army Center of Military History
Posted 04-26-18 APOD: M57: The Ring Nebula (2018 Apr 17) Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive. Composition: Giuseppe Donatiello
Posted 05-02-18 C-17 Globemaster III aircraft flies over the N.C. coast line on the way to the North Carolina Air National Guard Base, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, April 7, 2018.
Posted 05-08-18 La Petite Ceinture, Paris. Source: Fantastic Earth
Posted 05-16-18 USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) Source: Aircraft Carriers
Posted 05-30-18 USS Cowpens rolling in heavy seas in Typhoon Cobra in the Pacific Ocean, 18 December 1944. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 06-05-18
Posted 06-11-18 The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) fires its Phalanx close-in weapons system during a live-fire exercise.
Posted 06-18-18 Source: NASA
Posted 06-23-18 The British cruiser HMS Manchester. Source: Navy General Board
Posted 07-02-18 Senja, Norway. Source: World Magazine
Posted 07- 16 -18 Fata Morgana mirage makes these Black Sea tankers seem to float in mid-air. Source: Gliding.AU
Posted 08-02-18 Clouds developed after a tornado in Nebraska
Posted 08-20-18 The B-24 liberator ‘Betsy’ in 1944. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 09-03-18 Coumeenole Beach, Slea Head, Co Kerry. Source: Connected to Ireland
Posted 09-20-18 F4U-4 Corsair fighters preparing to launch from USS Boxer off Korea, July 1951. Source I Love WWII Planes
Posted 10-25-18 The Wichita in Nagasaki Harbor, Japan a few weeks after the end of World War II. The Hospital ships are USS Sanctuary and USS Haven. Source: Navy General Board
Posted 11-12-18
Posted 11-29-18 Dracula's castle
Posted 12-17-18 Source: Max Malloy Photography
Posted 01-04-18 Source: Josh Catigano
Posted 01-10-18 The first production TBF-1 Avenger pictured on the ground at the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in Bethpage, New York, #OTD in 1942. Source: National Navan Aviation Musuem
Posted 01-24-18 F8F-1 Bearcats assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit (CASU) 5 pictured in flight near San Diego, California, in 1945.
Posted 01-30-18 Amazing Lenticious clouds. Source: News Now
Posted 02-05-18 A German twin propelled Messerschmitt BF 110 bomber, nicknamed “Fliegender Haifisch (Flying Shark), over the English Channel, in August of 1940. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 02-10-18 -Impressive photo of South America from the ISS, in the background you can see the moon. Source: Fantastic things in the world
Posted 02-16-18 US Air Transport Command C-47 Skytrain aircraft flying over the Giza Necropolis in Egypt, 1943. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 02-22-18 White Northern Lights in Lapland, Finland. Source: NTS Television
Posted 02-28-18 On the edge of the world, The Swedish ship Goteborg. Source: Tall Ships Gallery
Posted 03-06-18 Northern Lights from Space, courtesy of NASA
Posted 03-12-18 The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) transits the Bosphorus Strait, Feb, 17, 2018. Source: All Hands Magazine
Posted 03-17-18 Northern Lights, Norway. Source: NTD Life
Posted 03-23-18 U.S. Marine Corps Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless of Marine Scouting Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241) in flight over Midway Atoll, in 1942-1943. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 03-29-18 Above the clouds with only Mount Fuji on the horizon. Source: Fantastic Earth
Posted 04-04-18 Tugboats unsuccessfully attempt to free the battleship USS Missouri after she ran aground on January 17, 1950 in the Chesapeake Bay. Source: Navy General Board
Posted 04-10-18 Roll Cloud Formation. Source: Daily Mail
Posted 04-16-18 The forward turrets of the Imperial Japanese heavy cruiser Kumano in 1939. Source: Navy General Board
Posted 04-21-18 This photo is from 23rd of March 2018 ~ Marketa in Fairbanks Alaska. (Ronnmurrayphoto). Source: The Aurora Chasers
Posted 04-27-18 SBD Dauntless dive-bombers in flight, 1942-43. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 05-03-18 Moving through the sky – in front of the Big Dipper no less – was a Geminid meteor so bright it could be called a fireball. Image Credit & Copyright: Yang Sutie
Posted 05-25-18 Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vbs of No. 417 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, flying in loose formation over the Tunisian desert on a bomber escort operation, April 1943. Source: warhistoryonline
Posted 05-31--18 The White rainbow ( Moonbow ) A rainbow illuminated by the Moon rather than the Sun. Sean Kiely. Source: Connected to Ireland
Posted 06-06-18
Posted 06-12-18 This photo is from 23rd of March 2018 ~ Marketa in Fairbanks Alaska. Ronnmurrayphoto. Source: The Aurora Chasers
Posted 06-19-18 Memorial Day 2018 at America’s Battleship - Battleship Iowa, Source: Pacific Battleship Center
Posted 06-25-18 Source: Linda Boozer
Posted 07-04-18
Posted 07-19-18 APOD: Northern Lights and Noctilucent Clouds (2018 Jun 21) Image Credit & Copyright Adrien Maudit. Source: Atronomy Picture of the Day
Posted 08-06-18 19-year-old Lieutenant Edwin Wright looks upon his airplane after being hit by an 88 mm shell, over the city of Munster, Germany. Source: War History online
Posted 08-23-18 Photographer Darren Pearson captured this incredible long exposure shot of lightning striking a tree.
Posted 09-06-18 USS South Carolina (DLGN CGN 37), Sea trials, around 14 October 1974
Posted 09-24-18 Only in SC. Photo Credit : Vicky Jackson
Posted 10-12-18 Eight Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX of No. 611 Squadron (West Lancashire), based at RAF Biggin Hill, London (UK), in 1943. The photo was taken out of a Lockheed Hudson as a public relations photo over Biggin Hill.
Posted 10-29-18 I was able to catch some anticrepuscular rays on mammatus clouds as I was heading home from storm chasing last night. (June 2018)Source: John Skiba Photography
Posted 11-15-18 When 20 P-51 Mustangs Take Off, The Glorious Sound of Humming Merlins Fills the Air! Photographer Paul Bowen, The Gathering of Mustangs and Legends
Posted 12-03-18 The Earth and Moon from space. Source: Historical Pictures
Posted 12-20-18 USS George Washington. Source: Navy General Board
Posted 01-05-18 B-17/F Mary Ruth – Memories of Mobile and the 401st Bomb Squadron flying toward the German U-boat pens at Lorient, France. 17 May 1943. This photo was taken from B-17 Memphis Belle on her last combat sortie (United States National Archives).
Posted 01-11-18 APOD: Fireball in the Arctic (2017 Dec 25) Image Credit & Copyright: Yang Sutie. Taken the night after the Geminids Meteor Shower peaked, the astrophotographer's location was near Lovozero Lake in Murmansk, Russia, just north of the Arctic Circle.
Posted 01-17-18 MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter
Posted 01-25-18 Northern lights in the sky over Murmansk region, Russia Photo by @ Valentin Zhiganov. Source: NTD Life
Posted 01-31-18 USS Missouri, USS Missouri, and the Arizona as the USS Missouri sub enters Pearl Harbor
Posted 02-06-18 The Beach. Source: coiour-my-world tumblr_n5ph1jg9h61szm930o1_500
Posted 02-12-18 - in 1954, Leyte (CVS 32) became the first operational antisubmarine warfare carrier. Source: National Naval Aviation Museum
Posted 02-17-18 Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park
Posted 02-23-18 The Bottisham Four, a famous photo showing four U.S. Army Air Force North American P-51 Mustang fighters from the 375th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group, from RAF Bottisham, Cambridgeshire (UK), in flight on 26 July 1944. Source: I Love WWII PLanes
Posted 03-01-18 Wood tv Source. Photo credit & copyright: Ben Green
Posted 03-24-18 APOD: Colorful Airglow Bands Surround Milky Way (2018 Mar 06). Image Credit & Copyright: Xiaohan Wang
Posted 03-30-18 Between the shades of the night. Source: Sailing Spirit
Posted 04-05-18 APOD: I Brought You the Moon (2018 Apr 01). Image Credit & Copyright: Fernando Cabrerizo. Source: Astronomy Picture of the Day (04-01-18)
Posted 04-11-18 USS Missouri (BB 63)
Posted 04-17-18 -Sunset in Columbia, SC Oct 29. Source: Amanda Callahan
Posted 04-23-18 Task Group Alpha in 1959. Source: Navy General Board
Posted 04-28-18 A slender crescent Moon and inner planets Venus and Mercury never wander far from the Sun in Earth’s skies. Image Credit & Copyright: Stan Honda
Posted 05-10-18 APOD: Camera Orion (2018 Mar 21). Image Credit & Copyright: Derrick Lim
Posted 05-21-18 Northrop P-61B Black Widow night fighter flies above the San Francisco fog, California, United States, 23 June 1948. Source: I Love WWII Planes
Posted 06-01-18 USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Source: Aircraft Carriers
Posted 06-07-18 Midway Atoll
Posted 06-13-18 Source: Aero-Pictures
Posted 06-20-18 Photo Taken By @torivarnaess On Instagram. Source: The Aurora Life
Posted 06-26-18 The decorated history of Nimitz began 50 years ago this month, when the keel was laid on June 22, 1968. Source: U.S Pacific Fleet
Posted 07-06-18 the Boneyard at Folly Beach by Jody McKnight!
Posted 07-23-18 This is QJ-M of the 339th BS - 96th BG in a raid over Germany in the summer of 1944. As yet no details are available regarding the mission or who took the image. Colourisation Nathan Howland - HowdiColour