German aircraft, including the jet fighter Me-262, abandoned at the airport in Austria, where they went to the Americans, spring 1945 years.
Meanwhile, in the workshop of Paul Allen, the restoration of the German jet fighter Me-262, which lasted almost ten years. The plane will fly on (Attention!) original Jumo 004B engines! If all goes well, the first flight of the Me-262 will take place this winter, and possibly at the end of December!
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The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range. Snapping a new frame every second and a half, the rocket-borne camera climbed straight up, then fell back to Earth minutes later, slamming into the ground at 500 feet per second. The camera itself was smashed, but the film, protected in a steel cassette, was unharmed.
Fred Rulli was a 19-year-old enlisted man assigned to the recovery team that drove into the desert to retrieve film from those early V-2 shots. When the scientists found the cassette in good shape, he recalls, “They were ecstatic, they were jumping up and down like kids.” Later, back at the launch site, “when they first projected [the photos] onto the screen, the scientists just went nuts.”
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V2 panorama from July 26, 1948:
Bf 109 G-2 of 4 / JG 52 in flight over the Caucasus mountains in the summer of 1943
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Ta 152H, unknown date. The greatly extended wing is clearly evident in this image.
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The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 was a World War II German high-altitude fighter-interceptor designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf.
The Ta 152 was a development of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft. It was intended to be made in at least three versions—the Ta 152H Höhenjäger (“high-altitude fighter”), the Ta 152C designed for medium-altitude operations and ground-attack using a Daimler-Benz DB 603 and smaller wings, and the Ta 152E fighter-reconnaissance aircraft with the engine of the H model and the wing of the C model.
The first Ta 152H entered service with the Luftwaffe in January 1945. The Ta 152 was produced too late and in insufficient numbers to affect the outcome of the war.
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Luftwaffe Ta 152 High Altitude Interceptor (Designer Kurt Tank)
Source: youtube.com
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BAND OF BROTHERS
Captain Richard D. Winters and Captain Lewis Nixon a couple of days before the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944
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WAR & PEACE !
The N30 crossroads, Foy, Belgium, 1944 & present days
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Artworks painted by Adolf Hitler
“The Munich Opera House”
“The Old Building in Stand of Trees”
“Ruins of a Cloister in Messines”
“The Arch of Triumph in Munich”
“The Country Church”
“Oedenplatz”
“Lamberg Castle”
“Battlefield Wall”
“Smoking Tank”
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Adding a few more from the wikipedia page:
Vienna State Opera House, 1912
Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ in 1913
Haus am See
The Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich
Also, for those in the notes who wonder how such an “evil man” could paint such things: that tells me you still don’t get Hitler. Before I go further, I want to declare that I’m not NatSoc, nor am I here to be an apologist for the Third Reich. But I want to draw something out about this movement that people don’t realize:
Hitler and his cause was not driven be “hate”, at least not merely or purely so. They were driven by love - a love of Germany, the homeland and her people. They felt betrayed and wounded; they wanted just vengeance towards who they felt was responsible for the pain of her people and land. Nazism drew strongly from the Romanticism movement (Wagner especially, but many other Germans) which was a reaction against the enlightenment. It was love against destructive reason. The enlightenment later turned into communism and so romanticism, as its enemy, responded with its love and nostalgia against it. This was one of the many influences on Nazism.
I bring this up here because these paintings (I speculate) tell me that Hitler felt strongly this way. He loved Wagner and he apparently loved classical architecture and the beauty of his homeland. He was probably not unlike many of us who post pictures of cathedrals in Europe and he, like us, saw the destruction of this beautiful world and rose up in force to combat it. It is the nature of this vengeance and combattedness that was must be aware of and we must always seek to be just in our actions. Love can be tyrannical and we must let our passions drive us, but not control us.
Polaris II of the 466th Bomb Group after crash landing at Attlebridge, Norfolk, 2 January 1945