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Offline Meatwad

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Score on some pretty interesting WW2 books
« on: October 02, 2006, 07:39:34 PM »
While going through a huge pile of books, I found one called "The Carrier War", very interesting book with loads of pictures from WW1 and WW2. Talks about the importance of carriers along with a volley of pictures from aircraft sitting on the deck to ones in-air in the middle of attack (from both sides) and onto the ships where photographers capture near misses and hits right before/after they happen.

Theres a lot of pictures I have never seen before but since I have no scanner, I cannot upload them. I did happen to see some diagrams and info in some early dive bombers and one picture of how the dive bomb site in a Dauntless should look like.

Very very interesting book :)

I will post more/edit when I review the rest
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Score on some pretty interesting WW2 books
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2006, 10:28:35 PM »
i dont have a flatbed scanner, so i use my digital camera instead.  
it does a good job of copying the pages

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Score on some pretty interesting WW2 books
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2006, 10:49:35 PM »
I might try that

EDIT - nope camera way didnt work. Maybe I can find a cheap scanner at a yard sale. One I was trying to get was a picture taken just feet from the USS Franklin maybe 2 seconds after it was hit by a japanese dive bomber. The caption didnt say whether it was a bomb or a kamikaze, but it shows the radio mast starting to fall and many pieces of debris flying throughout the air
« Last Edit: October 02, 2006, 11:07:02 PM by Meatwad »
See Rule 19- Do not place sausage on pizza.
I am No-Sausage-On-Pizza-Wad.
Das Funkillah - I kill hangers, therefore I am a funkiller. Coming to a vulchfest near you.
You cant tie a loop around 400000 lbs of locomotive using a 2 foot rope - Drediock on fat women