North American P-51D Mustang at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)

North American P-51D

Captured Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10

Restored/reconstructed Cromwell Mk IV tank mounted on the British 7th Armoured Division ("Desert Rats") memorial at their pre-D-Day training ground, Thetford Forest.  The UK Ministry of Defence has just announced that, as part of their apparently never-ending series of defence cuts, the Division's successor, 7th Armoured Brigade, is to lose its tanks and be incorporated in an infantry formation.  Sic Transit Gloria Mundi ...  JR.