Images of WWII Aviation

[Ozark]

Now that we have an area in the BBS for history, (tnx Pyro) I'll keep scanning the several hundred WWII era magizines in my collection.  

On Target
P-38
Shull and Crossbones
Boomerangs
Fallen Focke-Wulf
Back-Seat Gunners
Desert Warrior
Bostons
Stirling
Beaufort

Ozark




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332nd Flying Mongrels

[Westy]

Nice! Thanks for getting us this forumn Ozark. It's well over due  

 BTW, did you see the wing sweep on that Boomerrang?? The Germans copied that idea from the C-47 and that plane. and applied it to the ME-262

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 -Westy

[daddog]

Oz, who had the skull and crossbones art?

[F4UDOA]

Daddog,

The VF-17 Jolly Rogers.

[Replicant]

Daddog

Seeing this is a History forum   FYI 100 Sqn Royal Flying Corps and then Royal Air Force also use the skull & crossbones art within their squadron crest.  (as no doubt numerous other air forces).

100 Sqn was formed 11th February 1917 and between the 1920s and 1939 many squadrons would display their squadron crest or art on their planes.

Badge: In front of two bones in saltire, a skull - approved by HRH King George VI in November 1937. The badge was the official version of a motif used by the Squadron on the Western Front in 1917.


   

Regards

Nexx



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[gospel]

AWSOME Picts Oz

Thx for sharing them with us!

gospel

[NHFoxtro]

 Were the backseat gunner planes TBM's or another type of F4F? Thanks for the pic's I enjoyed looking at them.  

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[iculus]

Foxtro,

Those are SBD Dauntless Dive Bombers.  Very cool

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[Jimdandy]

Cool Ozark.

 That picture "On Target" must be a B-17F. See how far the guy is bent over. I sat in that seat when I rode in a B-17 called the 909. It was a G model. If you look at that picture put a gun sight about 4" above his head for a G model. The guy in that picture was probably about 5'6" or so. I'm 6'0" tall. It was like getting your head stuck between the rails on a fence while bent over as far over as I could to look thru that bombsight! Then my eye was riding right on the "pad" for your eye on the sight. I put pad in quotes because it was leather and was barely better than resting your eye on bare metal. I took a ride in it during the summer on a calm day and every little bump was like someone punching you in the eye. On top of that as I tried to move out of that position I about took my scalp off on the gun sight. LOL. I bet every bombardier came back with a black eye. You couldn't have been my size and done it. But I tell you what setting out in the plexy glass nose and just riding along was the COOLEST plane ride I ever had. It was like you were out in mid air.