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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Guppy35 on November 23, 2008, 11:45:28 PM
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Some absolutely amazing photos both color and black and white. Searchable too. The aviation junkies are having a field day. This batch is color from Midway
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=midway+source:life&imgurl=740e789cadbde559
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=740e789cadbde559_large)
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=515ed3112f56bdcc_large)
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=4cc44af26371ac15_large)
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=6588edcffdaa96cf_large)
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Some black and white B25H stuff
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=ece0e7000fe07033_large)
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=0a5ffbee062c3934_large)
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=9a8367f26eab3322_large)
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Very nice!
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Very good find Dan! I could look at those for hours. :aok
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Very good find Dan! I could look at those for hours. :aok
Apparently this is a recent deal. The news has been making it's way around the aviation and modeling forums for the last week or so. Hyperscale has a section just devoted to this where folks post their finds.
Early P40s in color anyone? :)
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=391d67c92ebfbc60_large)
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=7aa34daa78ce4709_large)
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=a83b0a77ce8cc7e2_large)
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=9b368a585e85afeb_large)
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those are great! I love seeing WW2 pics that Ive never seen before. :rock
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WOW! Never seen photos with great focues on them.
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Or maybe a post D-Day Jug bombed up?
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=4e0daaffe7b226ac_large)
or a Sherman tank crew?
(http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=P47+source:life&imgurl=1ed17122f8f9b434)
B26s in color?
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=eb4fea176b71727a_large)
(http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=B26+source:life&imgurl=f1709a19a7c930fe)
Ahh, and beautiful small intake P38s of the 54th FS in the Aluetians
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=97c44e5e5b0f6e55_large)
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Good find, TY
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exellent find. Immediatley upon seeing the cat flying along with his canopy open, wind blowing by.....It reeked of riding a motorcycle ,....knee's in the breeze. freedom.... that picture explained why these cats were looking for something to "replace" that feeling, no wonder alot of em wound up , in outfits like the boozefighters".... :aok
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:salute
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I think this picture is striking - mostly due to his eyes. It *wasn't* a game. :salute
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=Battle+of+Britain+source:life&imgurl=60a7cb7cb45e82bd
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followed some links - found this
(http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PopularScience/10-1940/xlg_tricycle_bombers.jpg)
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/14/ultra-sophisticated-bombing-simulator/
pretty cool
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Amazing stuff -- thanks Dan!
For example, here's a TRULY rare find:
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=27e718a8ea8f5c0e_large)
Yes, believe it or not, that's a Bolten-Paul Defiiant ACTUALLY IN THE AIR!!
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Those SBDs over the Reef Pic is simply amazing.
Good find Guppy. :aok
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oh god, color Warhawks, gotta get hand lotion. :O
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Wow fantastic
thanks
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What an awesome example of just how 'shiny' those planes were .. once they hit the flightline, they didn't get 'polished' often :)
A treasure of information in the details.
-GE
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Wow..amazing photos.
Thanks Dan.
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great photos! :aok
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Outstanding Gupp. I got wood on the Jug pic. :aok
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Childrens war:
15-yr-old German Luftwaffe anti-aircraft crew member crying after being taken prisoner by American forces during Spring of 1945 WWII action.
Location: Giessen, Germany
Date taken: 1945
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=06f61b738979c23b_landing)
Frightened villagers taking cover in the forest during Russian air raid.
Location: Tammisaari, Finland
Date taken: 1940
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=453c2bff82843e25_landing)
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Wouldn't fancy being in the back seat of one of those SBD's, no sir.
Here's one that caught my eye, The face says it all really, funny how some things stay the same.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=496fa633d8db3f08&q=Burma+source:life&usg=__tnGh4LNEyM7bS8B5GxqJXJ-V6wM=&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBurma%2Bsource:life%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
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(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=4723f569a0a74b6f_large)
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(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=4723f569a0a74b6f_large)
Is that a MK9 Karnak?
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Mk I or MK II. Small chance as being a Mk Va.
It has an early war cammo scheme and no cannons, three blade prop, three stack exhaust.
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In the third picture Guppy posted, the SBDs over Midway Atoll, SBD Number 5 has huge dents in the front of the cowling.
I wonder what happened? Bird Strike? :)
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Hard for a bird to strike there, through the prop. Also odd dents for a birdstrike.
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Mk I or MK II. Small chance as being a Mk Va.
It has an early war cammo scheme and no cannons, three blade prop, three stack exhaust.
Thinking it's a 602 Squadron Spitfire I LO-D
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The most touching photo of WW2:
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1423/1089105457_c9bdc55e12.jpg?v=0)
"A ten-year-old Polish girl named Kazimiera Mika, mourns the death of her older sister, who was killed in a field in Warsaw during a German air raid.
In the words of photographer Julien Bryan, "As we drove by a small field at the edge of town we were just a few minutes too late to witness a tragic event, the most incredible of all. Seven women had been digging potatoes in a field. There was no flour in their district, and they were desperate for food. Suddenly two German planes appeared from nowhere and dropped two bombs only two hundred yards away on a small home. Two women in the house were killed. The potato diggers dropped flat upon the ground, hoping to be unnoticed. After the bombers had gone, the women returned to their work. They had to have food.
But the Nazi fliers were not satisfied with their work. In a few minutes they came back and swooped down to within two hundred feet of the ground, this time raking the field with machine-gun fire. Two of the seven women were killed.
While I was photographing the bodies, a little ten-year old girl came running up and stood transfixed by one of the dead. The woman was her older sister. The child had never before seen death and couldn't understand why her sister would not speak to her... The child looked at us in bewilderment. I threw my arm about her and held her tightly, trying to comfort her. She cried. So did I and the two Polish officers who were with me..."
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There are some incredible pictures in there; thanks for the link, Dan.
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Wow. Thanks. Just wasted an hour at work there.
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good find, though I would suggest not putting so many up here as it slows page load.
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(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=06f61b738979c23b_landing)
JG11 is fortunate enough and honored to have (as far as I know), the only surviving Axis soldier in AH within our ranks.
Herr 'Vilkas' (you know he has shot you down) was a 13 year old Lithuanian lad when the Germans conscripted him into a similiar Anti-Aircraft gunners role. As the only German speaking member of the gun crew he was assigned the rank of Feldwebel Der Flak, and given kommand of the crew. Surviving the relentless retreat to the west, he managed to make his way to Berlin. His Father was captured and held by the Russians for many years after the war. Vilkas made his way to Canada by himelf, where he resides today. I can not express the honor of having him among us.
Next time you see Herr Vilkas in game. Shoot him a salute. :salute He is now 81 years old and can barely hold the stick steady.
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I don't know about that last part... I'd say Vilkas is one of the better flack gunners in the game :aok it truly is an honor to fly with him.
Amazing pictures.
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He sure can sing. Nothing like forming up before a flight to the sound of Vilkas singing German classics for the group. Talk about immersion.
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Wow. These are some great pictures.
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(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=caabc6d1d38c5c4e_large)
OK, the caption says this is a pilot in the cockpit. The date is 1942.
I'm no master at this, but I can't place the plane. Obviously not a fighter, and the angle isn't clear -- although that looks like the top of a seat to his left, and there's definitely a cable in conduit there. I'm a little skeptical that it's a cockpit shot at all despite the caption; just not busy enough, even for a view toward the back.
The only thing that looks unique to me is the oval, hinged window/hatch above him and to the right. Could this be an A20? Or a Ventura?
Looking some more, found this one that seems to be of the same plane. I'm thinking A20?
(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=046b96d3e2c17e21_large)
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ooh, wait a minute --
That view is from below, so there has to be a lower deck. And the oval window is also CONVEX -- so I bet its the navigator's astrodome. Could this be an early B17????
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Early B17C or D I'd say. The dome over the cockpit was not centered but off to the co-pilot's side.