And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
IJN B5N2 shot down while preparing to release a torpedo, 25 Oct 1944. Too low to bail out.
at first glance I was looking at this wondering, why is the right wing dropping yet the rotation (yaw, I think?) looks like it is twisting to the left when the lifting surface of the left wing isn't there any more? Oh yeah. Aerodynamic drag of the right wing is more than the lift previously provided by the entire left wing. I'm sure this is EXACTLY what was going through the pilots mind at this moment.
B6N Tenzan torpedo bomber shot down by USS Yorktown off Kwajalein atoll on Dec 4, 1943.
ReplyDeleteBack then, it was "The only good Jap is a dead Jap."
ReplyDeleteI had thought the photo was of a thwarted Kamikaze attack.
ReplyDeleteIt is.
Deletecondition of his underpants?
ReplyDeleteUncertain . . . but they’re about to get washed anyway.
ReplyDeleteat first glance I was looking at this wondering, why is the right wing dropping yet the rotation (yaw, I think?) looks like it is twisting to the left when the lifting surface of the left wing isn't there any more? Oh yeah. Aerodynamic drag of the right wing is more than the lift previously provided by the entire left wing. I'm sure this is EXACTLY what was going through the pilots mind at this moment.
ReplyDeleteWar is Hell.