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Offline oakranger

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #165 on: August 31, 2016, 11:42:47 PM »
Yep.

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #166 on: September 01, 2016, 02:00:00 AM »
Quote from: colmbo on August 31, 2016, 08:07:54 AM
I have to wonder if a photo got swapped.  That looks more like ground collision damage than gunfire damage, especially the elongated hole in the side of the fuselage with the paint scrape under the cockpit.

The lack of any obvious shrapnel damage is also indicative of it being something else than cannon damage.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #167 on: September 01, 2016, 08:09:11 AM »
Quote from: oakranger on August 31, 2016, 02:09:21 PM


Idk, but like you there could be a possible questioning that who ever took to photo and wrote about it could have exagrated some.

Or the editor didn't notice the wrong photo was with the article.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #168 on: September 01, 2016, 08:33:48 AM »


AH pilot "all I had was BBs and I hit him, hard, and he still landed!!!!"  :noid
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #169 on: September 01, 2016, 09:23:58 AM »
Quote from: colmbo on September 01, 2016, 08:09:11 AM
Or the editor didn't notice the wrong photo was with the article.

We will never know.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #170 on: September 01, 2016, 09:38:08 AM »
Quote from: colmbo on September 01, 2016, 08:09:11 AM
Or the editor didn't notice the wrong photo was with the article.

Would not surprise me at all. The anecdote is of a heavily damaged plane, especially the left wing - exactly what is seen in the photo.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #171 on: September 01, 2016, 08:00:37 PM »
305th BG, 364th BS

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #172 on: September 02, 2016, 08:30:52 AM »
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #173 on: September 02, 2016, 10:36:49 AM »
Quote from: puller on September 02, 2016, 08:30:52 AM
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Read about that b-17.   The whole front of the B-17 up to cockpit gone.   Pilot and co-pilot had the front row seat.  They can just lean fowared and look down.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #174 on: September 02, 2016, 03:18:26 PM »
Oakranger, in the picture it said the pilot, copilot, navigator, and bomb aimer were blown away. I don't see anyone in the photo. In your story that you read, did the pilot and co-pilot survive?
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #175 on: September 02, 2016, 03:28:09 PM »
Quote from: DaveBB on September 02, 2016, 03:18:26 PM
Oakranger, in the picture it said the pilot, copilot, navigator, and bomb aimer were blown away. I don't see anyone in the photo. In your story that you read, did the pilot and co-pilot survive?

If I recall,  and maybe I am wrong,  the pilot and copilot survived but bailed out of the bomber after a while.  There are two photos of this B-17, this is one.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #176 on: September 02, 2016, 04:02:20 PM »
Quote from: DaveBB on September 02, 2016, 03:18:26 PM
Oakranger, in the picture it said the pilot, copilot, navigator, and bomb aimer were blown away. I don't see anyone in the photo. In your story that you read, did the pilot and co-pilot survive?

Here is a link to a BBS that I read about it.  Benguttery is who knows the story about what happen.

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/111499-483rd-bomb-group-b-17-with-nose-blown-off-flying/
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #177 on: September 02, 2016, 04:07:23 PM »
Better site about it with three photos of it. 

http://www.dvrbs.com/camden-heroes/CamdenHeroes-FrankGramenzi.htm
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #178 on: September 02, 2016, 08:28:34 PM »
Name that plane!



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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #179 on: September 02, 2016, 09:32:07 PM »
FW 190 V32/U1?
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