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B-Man2
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TiM
Back home... It was awesome!!
Back home... It was awesome!!
I bought it last month (posted a pic in the book thread) and it's next on my to read list
ausreenactor
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You don't appreciate just how 'thick' the Thunderbolt was until you get a pilot beside it.
Lorenzo_l
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..or how looong those legs are until she puts on a skirt!look at them gams!
Hey Herbie! I'm sending this picture back home to your wife!
Pvt. Herbert Sanborn with an unknown woman, 1944
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B-Man2
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Edlook at them gams!
Hey Herbie! I'm sending this picture back home to your wife!
Pvt. Herbert Sanborn with an unknown woman, 1944
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The more I look at this photo I’m pretty sure that this gal was a Hollywood starlet from the early 1940s. I’m going to look around to see if I can find another photo of her.
ausreenactor
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And we should NOT be seeing that much thigh? Those 'legs' aren't regulation!
Greg Gale
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Let's not forget the other side either:
Erbo Graf von Kageneck and his Bf-109E on a Sicilian airfield in the late spring of 1941. He was credited with 66 victories. In December 1941, Kageneck was transferred back to the Mediterranean theatre with Staffel 9, JG 27 and gained his last two victories against British Commonwealth fighters over the deserts of North Africa. On 24 December, Kageneck was seriously wounded in combat with several Desert Air Force (DAF) Tomahawks, and Hurricanes south of Agedabia. Both Sergeant Maxwell (of No. 94 Squadron RAF) and Pilot Officer Thompson (No. 229 Squadron RAF) made claims for a fighter shot down in the same action. Many years later, some sources, including Kageneck's brother, August von Kageneck, claimed that the shots which hit Erbo were fired by the pre-eminent Australian ace of the war, Clive Caldwell. The main reason for this was that Caldwell favoured attacks from beneath his opponents, which was precisely the fashion in which Kageneck's wounds were sustained.
Although he suffered severe injuries to his stomach, abdomen and groin, Kageneck managed to fly his crippled fighter back to his base at El Magrun and make an emergency landing. He was immediately evacuated, first to a hospital in Athens, and then to another in Naples where, despite intensive care, he died of his wounds on 12 January 1942 at the age of 23.
Erbo Graf von Kageneck and his Bf-109E on a Sicilian airfield in the late spring of 1941. He was credited with 66 victories. In December 1941, Kageneck was transferred back to the Mediterranean theatre with Staffel 9, JG 27 and gained his last two victories against British Commonwealth fighters over the deserts of North Africa. On 24 December, Kageneck was seriously wounded in combat with several Desert Air Force (DAF) Tomahawks, and Hurricanes south of Agedabia. Both Sergeant Maxwell (of No. 94 Squadron RAF) and Pilot Officer Thompson (No. 229 Squadron RAF) made claims for a fighter shot down in the same action. Many years later, some sources, including Kageneck's brother, August von Kageneck, claimed that the shots which hit Erbo were fired by the pre-eminent Australian ace of the war, Clive Caldwell. The main reason for this was that Caldwell favoured attacks from beneath his opponents, which was precisely the fashion in which Kageneck's wounds were sustained.
Although he suffered severe injuries to his stomach, abdomen and groin, Kageneck managed to fly his crippled fighter back to his base at El Magrun and make an emergency landing. He was immediately evacuated, first to a hospital in Athens, and then to another in Naples where, despite intensive care, he died of his wounds on 12 January 1942 at the age of 23.
Edward
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crew of the 379th Bomb Group "Peter Wabbit" England, 24 July 1943. less than a month later all would be lost on 17 August 1943. Shot down by enemy aircraft, crashed Dorrebach, 6 miles W of Bingen, Germany
all KIA
Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Pilot: Erwalt Wagner, Co-pilot: Bill Barnard, Navigator: Joe Hilderbrand, Bombardier: Ken Gibbs, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Henry Kushman, Radio Operator: Ben Radensky, Ball turret gunner: Francis Donahue, Waist gunner: Marvin Charlson, Waist gunner: Eldred Andruss,Tail gunner: Dean Yates
all KIA
Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Pilot: Erwalt Wagner, Co-pilot: Bill Barnard, Navigator: Joe Hilderbrand, Bombardier: Ken Gibbs, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Henry Kushman, Radio Operator: Ben Radensky, Ball turret gunner: Francis Donahue, Waist gunner: Marvin Charlson, Waist gunner: Eldred Andruss,Tail gunner: Dean Yates
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Smithy
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It's photos like this one which hit me more than most because in them you can see young men behaving like all young men do, with bravado and thinking they're immortal and just larking around.
It's so immeasurably sad to look at a photo like this which captures young men in a moment and to know they would never make it home, meet girls, fall in love, make a family.
That's the stuff which always hits me now with these kinds of images.
It's so immeasurably sad to look at a photo like this which captures young men in a moment and to know they would never make it home, meet girls, fall in love, make a family.
That's the stuff which always hits me now with these kinds of images.
