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Panther at Hotel des Ardennes in Ligneuville

By Lone_Sentry_Admin, on January 1st, 2011%

Officers of the Ninth Air Force pose with a German Panther tank of Kampfgruppe Peiper knocked out in front of the Hotel des Ardennes in Ligneuville, Belgium on December 17th, 1944. The Panther was commanded by SS Untersturmführer Arndt Fisher who was badly burned in the battle. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)

Panther Tank at Hotel des Ardennes in Ligneuville

Knocked-out Panther tank at the Hotel des Ardennes in Ligneuville, Belgium

Fighters over Saipan

By Lone_Sentry_Admin, on December 26th, 2010%

A formation of three famous U.S. fighters of WWII over Saipan: a North American P-51 Mustang, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, and a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt of the 318th and 15th Fighter Groups. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

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WWII iPad Wallpapers

By Lone_Sentry_Admin, on December 24th, 2010%

A collection of WWII-themed wallpapers for the iPad and other computer desktops are listed below. All images are sized to 1024×1024 pixels.

	P-51 Mustang P-51 Mustang flown by pilot Ed Shipley in a heritage flight at the air show at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. (U.S. Air Force photograph by T/Sgt. Ben Bloker via AF.mil.)
	B-17 Flying Fortress Formation of B-17 Flying Fortresses over Germany from the 398th Bombardment Group en route to Neumunster, Germany in April 1945. (U.S. Air Force photograph via AF.mil.)
	Bastogne, Winter 1944 U.S. Army infantrymen advance during the harsh winter weather near Bastogne in winter 1944 (World War II Signal Corps via ARMY.mil.)
	We Can Do It! WWII “Rosie the Riveter” poster from War Production Board. (U.S. National Archives.)
	A-20 Havoc Bomber Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber being serviced at Langley Field, Virginia in July 1942. (Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer via Library of Congress.)
	MPs of the Big Red 1 Military policemen of the 1st Infantry Division “Big Red 1″ in Normandy shortly after D-Day, June 1944. (U.S. National Archives photograph.)
	M3 Tanks U.S. M3 tanks during armored training at Fort Knox, Kentucky in summer of 1942. (Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer via Library of Congress.)
	Luftwaffe FW 190 Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D-9 in the collection of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photograph.)
	B-29 Superfortress B-29 “Gravel Gertie” of 882nd BS, 500th BG suffered collapsed landing gear on Saipan. (U.S. Air Force photograph.)
	Tank Attack U.S. tank drives over defeated Germany to attack Japan. (Cover of “Army Motors”, May 1945, Sgt. Tirman.)

Instructions to save an image as wallpaper on the iPad:
• Step 1: When browsing the Internet in Safari on the iPad, simply press and hold on an image and a menu will appear to save the image in “Saved Photos” on your iPad.
• Step 2: On your iPad home screen or desktop, open “Settings” and then choose “Brightness & Wallpaper.” Touch that to open it, and a “Wallpaper” box will appear. Click on the “Wallpaper” box to select images from your “Saved Photos”.

Sturmgeschütz at Cassino

By Lone_Sentry_Admin, on December 23rd, 2010%

Photographs of German Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) captured near Cassino, Italy, from Report of the New Weapons Board, Office of the Commanding General, Army Service Forces, Washington, D.C., April 1944.

Italian Fifth Army Area — Ordnance Materiel

Captured German self-propelled gun. Later used as target for bazooka demonstration.

German self-propelled 75-mm PAK 40 AT gun captured near barracks north of Cassino.

Rear view of German self-propelled 75-mm PAK 40 AT gun captured near barracks north of Cassino.

Closeup of German self-propelled 75-mm PAK 40 AT gun captured near barracks north of Cassino.

B-24 Nose Art

By Lone_Sentry_Admin, on December 22nd, 2010%

WWII B-24 Liberator nose art from 864th, 865th, and 866th Bombardment Squadrons of the 494th Bombardment Group and 392nd Bombardment Squadron of the 30th Bombardment Group. Source: U.S. Air Force photographs.

B-24 "Lady Leone" of the 864th Bombardment Squadron, 494th Bombardment Group. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

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Destroyed Panther in Normandy

By Lone_Sentry_Admin, on December 21st, 2010%

Destroyed Panther Tank Normandy 1944 Here is an interesting photo of a destroyed Panther in Normandy that was recently posted on Flickr.

• Panther Side View

• Panther Rear View

According to the website, the German Panther tank was destroyed near Val-de-Breuil on August 16-17, 1944. The tank carries two tactical markings, “I02″ over “231″, with some type of unit marking on the turret where the zimmerit is removed.

Wartime Kent

By Lone_Sentry_Admin, on December 20th, 2010%

Wartime Kent is a small, but interesting, set of photographs on Flickr of Kent during WWII. The set includes several photographs showing damage from V-2 rockets in 1945.

B-24 from Maxwell Field, Alabama

By Lone_Sentry_Admin, on December 18th, 2010%

A Consolidated B-24 Liberator from the four-engine pilot school of the Eastern Flying Training Command at Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama (now designated Maxwell Air Force Base or Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base). The U.S. Army Air Forces established a specialized school for pilots of four-engine aircraft at Maxwell Field in July 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photo.)

B-17 and B-52 iPad Wallpaper

By Lone_Sentry_Admin, on December 9th, 2010%

U.S. Air Force photographs of B-17 Flying Fortress “Thunderbird” and a B-52 Stratofortress participating in a Heritage Flight at the Defenders of Liberty Airshow at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The wallpaper images are sized to 1024×1024 pixels and 1024×768 pixels for the iPad and other computer desktop backgrounds.

1024 x 768 1024 x 1024 Wallpaper	B-17 and B-52 Fortresses B-17G Flying Fortress and B-52H Stratofortress representing over seventy years of U.S. Air Force Fortresses. Photograph by U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Michael A. Kaplan.
1024 x 768 1024 x 1024	Bomber Heritage Flight B-17G “Thunderbird” Flying Fortress and a B-52H Stratofortress from the 2nd Bomb Wing in 2006. Photograph by U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Michael A. Kaplan.

Sd.Kfz. 10 Halftrack

By Lone_Sentry_Admin, on November 23rd, 2010%

Shown below are Bundesarchiv photographs of the German Sd.Kfz. 10 halftrack. (Sd.Kfz. = Sonderkraftfahrzeug or special-purpose motorized vehicle.) The Sd.Kfz. 10 was used extensively by the German military throughout WWII as a light tractor and prime mover with over 14,000 produced. The Sd.Kfz. 10 chassis also formed the basis for the Sd.Kfz. 250 light armored personnel carrier.

Sd.Kfz. 10 Halftrack Tows 37-mm Pak 36 Antitank Gun

An Sd.Kfz. 10 halftrack tows a 3.7cm Pak 36 in Russia in October 1941. Both the tractor and antitank gun have a crude white winter camouflage, and several of the crew wear improvised camouflage over their uniforms. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-268-0176-14 / Böhmer / CC-BY-SA)

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