DC-3’s Immortality Captured In Your Own C-47 War Relic Skin Panel – By Hans Wiesman
The Douglas Dc-3 was developed as a stretched version from its successful predecessor DC-2 that first flew in 1934. That model crushed the dominance of…
Pan Am’s B-314 Clippers transferred to WW II US NAVY service – By Hans Wiesman
The Boeing B-314 in military colors with huge Stars and Stripes on the front fuselage, resting for maintenance on the ramp of La Guardia Marine…
Guest Blogger The Dakota Hunter: Nippon’s 2nd attack plan on US, Genesis of Alaska Highway 1942
Right after the successful Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor/ Hawaii on Dec 7, 1941, many American citizens must have panicked over the next aggressive move…
12 Most Amazing WWII Posters & Ads – The Dakota Hunter
German Kriegsmarine Magazine, Propaganda announcing the U-boat attacks on the NY harbor They came close, but the announcement was too optimistic. With the rapid advance…
Mystery Diamond DC-3, Shot, Crashed & Robbed – by Hans Wiesman
The Diamond DC-3 after the crash, about to be robbed from a fortune by a group of Beachcombers With the advance of the Japanese invasion…
Airborne Aircraft Carriers of the early 1950s by Hans Wiesman
During WWII, the flight range of the USAF long-distance bombers made huge leaps forward with every new model that came out, mainly due to the…
Dakota Blues or “Celebrating 80 years of the DC-3 Maiden flight”? by Hans Wiesman
The C-47 Fuselage was displayed in the Ardennes forest for a war movie. In the past years, we have seen a larger number of DC-3’s…
Ghosts of the Gooney Bird Volume 3 – By Hans Wiesman
In my previous Blogs Ghosts of the Gooney Bird, I showed pictures of crashed , lost and derelict Douglas C-47’s/ DC-3’s/ Dakotas. Most of them…
Dc-3, Icon of Victory. Part 2, D-Day+6, Top Brass flies into Normandy’s Advanced Landing Ground
On D-Day+6, 12 June 1944, the Allied forces have settled on the Normandy Beach heads, with artificial Sea Ports and Advanced Landing Grounds (ALG’s). See…
DC-3, Icon of Victory, by Hans Wiesman
Just 3 days after the 6th of June 1944, USAAF Engineers achieved the unthinkable. Right next to Omaha Beach on the Normandy coast at Saint…
Air Raids over the Borneo Oil Refineries by Dakota Hunter Hans Wiesman
The fascinating photo was taken from a PBY-5 operated by Australian Forces, to supply the Allied war effort in PNG in 1944/45 . As the…
Ghosts of the Gooney Bird – Part 2 by Hans Wiesman
The successful photo series as shown in my last report as Guest Blogger, will have a follow-up with this Volume II. Amazing photos of the…