Author Topic: Looking for a WW2 B17 photo  (Read 234 times)

Offline TopGear

  • Copper Member
  • **
  • Posts: 118
Looking for a WW2 B17 photo
« on: February 04, 2013, 08:06:59 PM »
I saw at one time a photo of a bombing run of B17's(I think, it's been years since I've seen the pictures). Anyway it was a series of photos where the released bombs of the aircraft hit a lower flying one and broke it up. Again I'm going from memory so maybe I don't remember it quite right. Thanks.

Offline Buzzard7

  • Nickel Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 601
Re: Looking for a WW2 B17 photo
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2013, 08:43:49 PM »
Seen it in a book called Flying Fortress. Not sure where my copy is.

Offline shotgunneeley

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1055
"Lord, let us feel pity for Private Jenkins, and sorrow for ourselves, and all the angel warriors that fall. Let us fear death, but let it not live within us. Protect us, O Lord, and be merciful unto us. Amen"-from FALLEN ANGELS by Walter Dean Myers

Game ID: ShtGn (Inactive), Squad: 91st BG

Offline TopGear

  • Copper Member
  • **
  • Posts: 118
Re: Looking for a WW2 B17 photo
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2013, 10:24:05 PM »
This?

http://www.daveswarbirds.com/b-17/photos/tail/bombed_tail3.jpg

Yeah that was it, thanks a bunch.  It's  funny how some pictures just stick with a person.  Here is the rest of that series and a bit of a description.  Thanks again.

http://www.daveswarbirds.com/b-17/tail3.htm

Offline colmbo

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2246
      • Photos
Re: Looking for a WW2 B17 photo
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2013, 01:20:41 AM »
Yeah that was it, thanks a bunch.  It's  funny how some pictures just stick with a person.  Here is the rest of that series and a bit of a description.  Thanks again.

http://www.daveswarbirds.com/b-17/tail3.htm

We had the Collings bombers in Burbank and I met a ball gunner by the name of Bill Richardson.  He was in the ball of the aircraft taking the photos.  The aircraft that got hit drifted under them as they dropped.
Columbo

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

Fate whispers to the warrior "You cannot withstand the storm" and the warrior whispers back "I AM THE STORM"