New (?) LIFE Photos of WWII Allied Bombers and Crew

[Babalonian]

I stumbled upon some recently published photos this week online from Time & LIFE Magazine (most from photographer Margaret Bourke-White) from WWII, most b/w but a good number in color, all of extraordinary quality and clearity.  Most if not all seem new to me, at least I've never seen them published or posted anywhere else.  Have a look for yourself, and let me know what ya think or if you've seen any of these before.

http://www.life.com/gallery/26102/wwii-allied-bombers-and-crews

[DERK13]

AMAZING!! thatis some HD stuff, great find

[SEseph]

 

[gyrene81]

nice find... 

[Babalonian]

Thanks, glad it's something others are enjoying.

They're really HD, even some of the B/W ones featuring B-17s at their "front" bases are so clear and crisp the planes really do look like they're less than a year old (if not a month or two) out of the factory. 

The Lockheed plant photo of the B-17 assembley line I also found interesting, I can't think of many that clearly show a co-ed working environment with a real even blend of both the sexes  working shoulder to shoulder as it was (they're usualy of only an individual 'rosie the riveter' doing her job somewhere on something in the line).

And the photo of the Waddy Wagon's crew was both funny and sad, but I think their plane would make a great skin someday in the game.   

[Shuffler]

Thanks for posting.... great pics.

[Pigslilspaz]

Waddy's Wagon made me laugh until I read that they had been shot down, felt like a punch to the gut. 

[007Rusty]

 

[MoJoRiZn]

Thanks Babalonian, for posting that link. is some great looking pictures and even more if you click the other images links after viewing through them
after viewing the allied bombers and crew i clicked on the spitfire images link. interesting to find out that is where the "The Few" AH squad got its name from


http://www.life.com/gallery/24872/wwii-the-legendary-spitfire#index/2

Spitfires at Duxford, England
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few," Winston Churchill famously said of Britain's debt to the outnumbered RAF pilots who defeated the mighty German Luftwaffe. In the long years since then, the pilots who fought to defend England during those hellish months in 1940 -- Englishmen, Poles, Czechs, Americans, Canadians, Aussies, and many others -- have been known, simply and fondly, as "The Few."


MoJo

[Tupac]

I liked the picture of the B17 Shady Lady

[pipz]

Thanks for posting that link. 

[jay]

anyone know the link to the website with like the 60 pictures of the russian front from russian perspective?

[longtime]

Waddy's Wagon made me laugh until I read that they had been shot down, felt like a punch to the gut. 

Agree 100%.

[Dogtown]

<S> to the guys that really flew these things. B.B,