WWII Equipment - Vics, Aircraft and Kit

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Birdcage Corsair Restoration

It is now just over seven years since F4U-1 Corsair Bu.02465 rose to the surface of Lake Michigan following a retrieval effort sponsored by Chuck Greenhill. As with many other Lake Michigan aircraft salvage operations, the experts at A & T Recovery were behind this successful endeavor. The Corsair had slumbered at the bottom of Lake Michigan for seven decades, following a landing accident aboard the training carrier USS Wolverine on June 12th, 1943. Her pilot at the time, Ens Carl Harold “Harry” Johnson survived the ordeal almost unscathed, though sadly lost his life later that year in an aerial collision over Hawaii.

This Corsair, the world’s only substantially original survivor of the earliest breed of production Corsairs, has been under restoration at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida since she arrived there in November, 2010. While the museum has no official timeline on when the aircraft will be ready for display, a lot of work has taken place in the intervening years, with most of the major structural elements now complete.

The pictures of the plane's current status are interesting.
The amount of money and resources needed to restore one of these planes is probably mind-boggling. Still, a very cool and rare historic aircraft.

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Texas Flying Legends Museum – P-47D Restoration

Good to see an old Jug coming together, piece by piece.

[C-Mag]

Soviet Armored Patrol Boat BK-31 found in the Volga, Battle of Stalingrad. Salvage underway.


These things were really cool. Yes, that is a T-34 Turret on that boat.


The Salvage



Battle Damage plugged with wood



http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017 ... talingrad/

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I’m enjoying this series of short videos about the use of technology during WW2, so thought I’d share.

http://www.nbclearn.com/courage

[Okeefenokee]

Took the family to the 1st Cav Museum on post today. Good time.

[Smitty-48]

Did they have any exhibits about the General who was killed while helicopter deer hunting on the Cambodian border, or the crew that used to fly into North Vietnam to steal bicycles by hooking them with the skids?

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Here's a bird you don't see every day. Can't help but think about the Hurricane when you see the wooden fuselage. Interesting that they were able to adapt wings from a T-6 trainer.

http://warbirdsnews.com/warbird-restora ... eport.html

[Okeefenokee]

Did they have any exhibits about the General who was killed while helicopter deer hunting on the Cambodian border, or the crew that used to fly into North Vietnam to steal bicycles by hooking them with the skids?

Probably not. They won't even acknowledge my commandeered war donkey.

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