#rabaul

[carbone14]

Porte-avions USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) attaqué par l'aviation japonaise pendant le raid sur Rabaul – Bombardement de Rabaul – Guerre du Pacifique – Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée – 11 novembre 1943

Photographe : W. Eugene Smith

#WWII #guerre du pacifique #pacific war #bombardement de rabaul #bombing of rabaul #marine militaire #military navy #marine de guerre #navy #porte-avions #aircraft carrier #classe essex #essex-class #uss bunker hill (cv-17) #uss bunker hill #cv-17 #w. eugene smith #rabaul #papouasie-nouvelle-guinée #papua new guinea #11/11/1943 #11/1943 #1943

[theworldatwar]

An American Hellcat fighter takes off from the carrier USS Essex during the attack on Rabaul, New Guinea - Feb 1942

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #wwii #ww2 history #wwii era #world war 2 #ww2history #usmc #aviation #1942 #Rabaul #papua new guinea #uss essex #hellcat fighter #hellcat #pacific theater #war in the pacific

[retropopcult]

Robert Conrad enjoying a beer on the set of "Baa Baa Black Sheep”, 1976

#Pappy Boyington #Black Sheep Squadron #tv show #WWII #1970s #Vought F4U Corsair #fighter pilot #World War II #Pacific #Papua New Guinea #Rabaul

[hontokana]

Itambu - Suruk Nating  Region: Papua New Guinea (Rabaul, East New Britain) / Style: Tolai Rock / Year: 1991 LIKED

#Itambu #Papua New Guinea #Rabaul #East New Britain #Tolai Rock #1991 #LIKED

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“JAPS LOST 16 OUT OF 18 BOMBERS IN ATTACK ON U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER,” Toronto Star. April 1, 1942. Page 37. ---- U.S. ACE BAGS SIX ENEMY BOMBERS IN PACIFIC ENGAGEMENT --- Vicious anti-aircraft fire from protecting naval vessels fills the sky marks where a Jap plane burns. After being disabled by a U.S. flier, above a United States aircraft carrier "somewhere in the Pacific," as a Lieut. Edward O'Hare, it attempted a suicide dive on the carrier, but heavy Japanese bomber raid is driven off. Sixteen out of 18 of the was stopped short of 200 yards away by concentrated anti-aircraft fire. attacking bombers were destroyed. The black smudge on the horizon O'Hare is credited with destroying six of the 18 planes shot down.

#action off bougainville #rabaul #united states navy #uss lexington #carrier air group #fleet air arm #butch o'hare #aa guns #pacific war #imperial japanese navy #world war II

[bluesman56]

Open eyed by Tony

#Nikon5300 #Papua New Guinea #cruise #island #new britain #oceania #rabaul #ship #simpson harbour #tourist #village #world cruise #words #text #sayings #2019 03 05 1139100

[accuratepicuresofanthropologists]

"E.W.P. Chinnery wearing a bandage for an injury resulting from a car crash, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1937"

Via Trove. It's not very often you see pictures of anthropologists in the immediate aftermath of them being in car crashes.

#E.W.P. Chinnery #Trove #anthropology #Rabaul #New Guinea

[themakeupbrush]

Britt Lower at the 2023 SAG Awards

#britt lower #red carpet #2023 sag awards #yesss Rabaul mishra jellyfish dress

[aiiaiiiyo]

#World War II Marine manning a machine gun after rescuing a temporarily blinded pilot from Rabaul Harbor #New Guinea #while under enemy fire from shore #1944 #eaglemaxie #oldschool

[irishwarriornyc]

This young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission has just jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot who was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul.

Since Japanese coastal defense guns were firing at the plane while it was in the water during take-off, this brave young man, after rescuing the pilot, manned his position as a machine gunner without taking time to put on his clothes. A hero photographed right after he’d completed his heroic act. Naked.

The photo was taken by Horace Bristol (1908-1997). In 1941, Bristol was recruited to the U.S. Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, as one of six photographers under the command of Captain Edward J. Steichen, documenting World War II in places such as South Africa, and Japan.

He ended up being on the plane the gunner was serving on, which was used to rescue people from Rabaul Bay (New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea) when this occurred. In an article from a December 2002 issue of B&W magazine he remembers: “…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay.

[captain-price-unofficially]

A U.S. Marine Corps SBD Dauntless flying to drop its bombs on Vunakanau Airdrome, Rabaul, New Guinea.

#wwii #aviation #pacific theater #new guinea campaign

[carbone14]

L'infanterie de marine de la marine impériale japonaise (Special Naval Landing Forces – SNLS) débarque en Nouvelle-Bretagne pour prendre Rabaul – Bataille de Rabaul (1942) – Campagne de Nouvelle-Guinée – Nouvelle-Guinée – Janvier 1942

#WWII #guerre du pacifique #pacific war #campagne de nouvelle-guinée #new guinea campaign #bataille de rabaul (1942) #battle of rabaul (1942) #marine impériale japonaise #imperial japanese navy #ijn #special naval landing forces #snls #rabaul #nouvelle-bretagne #new britain #nouvelle-guinée #new guinea #01/1942 #1942

[catsofyore]

"Portrait of Ruth McNicholl seated outside holding a kitten, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1936" Source.

#cat #cats #catsofyore

[usafphantom2]

Battle for the Solomons - Task Force 50 to Rabaul

Artist: John D. Shaw

#Hellcat #Rabaul #f4u #Corsair #fighteraircraft #theaviationart #theaviationartofficial #Paintings #Artwork #Airplane #Planes #warbird #carrierplanes #militaryhistory #fighteraircraft #aviationpic #airforce

@theaviationart via X

#ww2 #pacific war #us navy

[chrisfriel]

rabaul 2008 / 040523

rabaul / new britain / papua new guinea / 2008 reworked 040523

the landscape around the main volcano miles of burnt trees is extraordinary

[pinturas-sgm-aviacion]

1943 12 The Black Sheep - Nicolas Trudgian

Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington’s Black Sheep – the Marine Corsairs of VMF-214 – taxi out for another mission from Vella Lavella, December 1943, escorting a B-24 raid on the Japanese fortress at Rabaul. Action is guaranteed and the intensity of aerial fighting here which later saw Boyington shot down and taken prisoner, was equal to anything in the war. For their part in the prolonged battle for the South West Pacific the Black Sheep became national heroes.Few fighter units in World War II gained the notoriety of Pappy Boyington’s Marine Corps VMF-214 “Black Sheep” Squadron. Equipped with the Chance Vought F4U Corsair, under Boyington’s spirited leadership, the ‘Black Sheep’ pilots were accorded one of only two Presidential Unit Citations awarded to Marine Corps squadrons during the war in the Pacific.

#Nicolas Trudgian