Art & Image Thread

[Matt Wiser]

A postwar visit to Norfolk Naval Base by HMS Illustrious, June, 1990:

[Wolfman]

Here's a profile of an ALAF MiG-17PF "FRESCO-D".

[Matt Wiser]

I do believe that's one of the defectors.

[Wolfman]

I do believe that's one of the defectors.

Yeah, I think it’s the USAFA cadet who was effectively press-ganged into the ALAF…

[Matt Wiser]

You need to put that up on the Other Board.

U.S.S. Enterprise (CVN-65) with CVW-11 docking at Pearl Harbor after First Kamtchatka, June, 1987:

[Wolfman]

I will…

[Matt Wiser]

Baja War: 3rd Armored Division artillery prepping to move forward, Day two...

[Wolfman]

Mexico should’ve just paid up and shut up…

[Matt Wiser]

U.S.S. Belknap (CG-26) limps back to Norfolk after a hit by an AS-6 ASM from a Backfire, 1986... She was damaged almost similarly after a collision with U.S.S. John F. Kennedy (CV-67) in the Med in 1975. Four years in the yard, recommissioned in 1980... Aluminium superstructures and high heat do not mix...She was repaired, but served only a few years postwar until replaced by a new-build AEGIS ship. Now moored at Patriots Point, NC next to the U.S.S. Yorktown (CV-10).

[Matt Wiser]

Miss Buffy and EASTERN EXPRESS: A B-52 prepares for a mission from RAF Fairford, February, 1988;

[Matt Wiser]

The "Other Air Bridge": the Far East via Hawaii to CONUS, Clark AB, the Philippines, 1988:

[Matt Wiser]

D-3, 1 Sep 85: Bergstrom AFB, TX. A 91st TRS RF-4C gets some care from its ground crew. Seventy-two hours later.....it would be for real.

[Wolfman]

Note my question on the Other Board about this unit…

[Matt Wiser]

Noted and answered.

[Wolfman]

Thanks.

[Matt Wiser]

SAG Charlie in the North Atlantic, 1987... This is working up prior to both Iceland and Kola. Lead ship is USS Iowa (BB-61)

[Bernard Woolley]

HMS Edinburgh (D97) and an unknown Fearless class LPD alongside at HMNB Portsmouth circa 1988.

[Bernard Woolley]

HMS Oracle (S16) leaving Gosport for the last time in 1986. She would be lost a few days later while on patrol in the G-I-U.K. Gap.

[Bernard Woolley]

HMS Oberon (S09) leaving Gosport in 1986.

[Wolfman]

Here's a USN Aggressor F-15A Eagle about three years prior to the Baja War.