re: History in Pictures is a great twitter feed. Here is one just posted.

I've got that same model that I built as a teenager too Darth. I did mine in neutrality patrol colors. Time has not treated it well but I can't bring myself to get rid of it.

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It was a poor performer and severely outclassed. Most of the squadron was shot down at Midway.

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As Darth said, it was an old design that was already being replaced by the Avenger but it had done reasonably well prior to Midway hitting several ships in the February & March 1942 carrier raids and playing a big part in sinking Shoho at the battle of the Coral Sea.

Midway was the perfect storm. An older, slower aircraft carrying a weapon that had to be delivered low and slow, attacking without fighter cover. It is fairly amazing that any survived and for what it is worth, all but one of the six new Avengers from Midway were also shot down when they attacked without fighter cover.

Torpedo attacks from aircraft just weren't realistic when fighter cover was present. Japanese Kates were also shot out of the sky in droves despite having fighter protection and being able to deliver their weapons much higher and faster than their American counterparts.

At Midway, John Ford (the famous movie producer) was on the Hornet filming Torpedo 8's role in the battle. After the entire squadron was shot down and all but George Gay killed, he made only 30 copies for the families of the air crews.

It is a very moving tribute. He literally captured Torpedo Squadron 8 flying to their deaths.

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Here is one that may be a bit harder (and it also fits in WW1)...

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Oh man. I can't really tell a whole lot due to the angle this picture was taken. The bow shield looks Imperial German and the 4 stacks makes me think it's a not a battleship. The only German cruisers from WWI that I can think of from that time is the Scharhorst and the Gneisenau. I'm going to say it's one of them but which one, I have no idea.

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Darth's ship is the Prince Euge, one of Hood's killers.

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Yep It's the Prinz Eugen.

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OK, will tell mine: Darth was right on it - it was the SMS Scharnhorst, sunk in 1914 in the Battle of the Falkland Islands.

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Well I really got lucky there. I thought it was a German cruiser from that time and the Scharhorst and Gneisenau are the only two of those that I can remember their name. Rally I just gave an educated guess.

3 stacks

Russian cruiser Aurora?

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Russian cruiser Aurora?

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Close...

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Close...

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Well the only other Imperial Russian ship I know of was the battleship Potemkein or something like that. But that does not look big enough.

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At least that is what the thing says...

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That's it? I only know about her because she was made famous due to her crew munitioning in 1905.

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Leaving ships. What kind of plane is this?

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Looks like a captured Sopwith triplane with German markings.

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Looks like a captured Sopwith triplane with German markings.

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Bingo.