...the photos are excellent for the era. Enjoy
1 posted on
03/19/2013 5:44:56 PM PDT by
Doogle
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2 posted on
03/19/2013 5:45:14 PM PDT by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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3 posted on
03/19/2013 5:50:41 PM PDT by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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slopping editing....losses were 60 planes, 600 aircrew, NOT 600 pilots.."
4 posted on
03/19/2013 5:51:10 PM PDT by
ken5050
("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
To: Doogle
That was when the were Army, they were in the blood and guts business then.
7 posted on
03/19/2013 5:54:24 PM PDT by
ansel12
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To: Doogle
Amazing quality, almost as if they were taken today!
8 posted on
03/19/2013 5:55:21 PM PDT by
Viennacon
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10 posted on
03/19/2013 5:57:06 PM PDT by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Doogle
-——Eighth Air Force or The Mighty 8th.-——
I just got back from a vacation in South Carolina and the Mighty 8 th has a museum near Hilton Head....
They are reconditioning a Flying Fortess there...pretty cool place...
10 guys get into a bomber... Fly at sub zero temps... For hours at a time....Drop six - thousand pounds bombs over Germany all the while talking heavy flak....
Turn around go home.... If you make it....
11 posted on
03/19/2013 6:04:29 PM PDT by
JZoback
To: Doogle
Will always cherish my B-17 ride in 2007.
Another check on my bucket list.
12 posted on
03/19/2013 6:08:20 PM PDT by
G Larry
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To: Doogle
Gotta love that 'nose art!'
15 posted on
03/19/2013 6:14:27 PM PDT by
45semi
(A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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Am I the only one that sees the humor of the photo holding a Rolliflex - made in Germany - while standing on a B-17 getting ready to go and bomb...Germany?
17 posted on
03/19/2013 6:21:54 PM PDT by
ASOC
(What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
To: Doogle
Am I the only one that sees the humor of the photo holding a Rolliflex - made in Germany - while standing on a B-17 getting ready to go and bomb...Germany?
18 posted on
03/19/2013 6:22:01 PM PDT by
ASOC
(What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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20 posted on
03/19/2013 6:23:48 PM PDT by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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I think the B-17 was the prettiest bomber of the war. I also think the British Lancaster was probably the best including the B-29.
The Spitfire was the prettiest fighter tho the BF-109 and FW-190 were close. Also the P-40 had a good look to it. even the Zero looked nice.
22 posted on
03/19/2013 6:32:34 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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To: Doogle
cool... i never understood why some were painted and some were not, was it a European vs Pacific theater thing???
and then, there were the Formation Ships...
yeah i know it's a B-24
25 posted on
03/19/2013 6:40:48 PM PDT by
Chode
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Several years ago we boarded the B-17 “Liberty Belle” in Addison, Tx for a flight of a lifetime, but as it taxied down the runway the right outside engine began to spew plumes of white smoke and the bird began shaking...more so.. it’s a rough ride under the best of conditions. With us was an elderly gentleman, old enough to have been a WWII Vet, easily, and unmoved through it all. But not everyone was so stoic. Twin girls screaming, mother conforting them. Even I wondered if this was not such a great idea...(I wasn’t certain the pilot was aware of the problem)happily he aborted, turned around, and we deplaned and that was that. I have some pics around here somewhere and she was a real beauty.
29 posted on
03/19/2013 6:50:22 PM PDT by
Dysart
( Democracy is the road to socialism-- Karl Marx)
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... October 1943 when 60 bombers were destroyed and 600 pilots(sic) perished in a single raid in Germany.This was the second raid on Schweinfurt, the center of the Reich's ball bearing industry. A crippling attack on the wheels of the Nazi war machine. After the war Albert Speer the Nazi supply genius, acknowledged that a rapid follow-up on this raid would have caused the Wehrmacht to grind to halt, ending the war in six weeks. Sadly there was no third raid on Schweinfurt.
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My God they’re kids. Teenagers and yet they had the guts to fly in those planes. We’ll never agian see the like of such men.
54 posted on
03/19/2013 8:28:21 PM PDT by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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If you haven't read, I highly recommend "Freedom's Forge." The story of how we produced our ships and planes to win the war is amazing.
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65 posted on
03/19/2013 9:06:55 PM PDT by
EternalVigilance
(Go ahead and violate the laws of nature. But nature and nature's God will have the last word.)
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