just some good photos

[dujardin]

hello,

hope you enjoy those...

have a look on the difference of grain on the jacket, also how the patch is just sewed and on the shoulder; ID plates on this man of the 320th BG

so close in the tail gun of a Lancaster

another crew member of the 320th BG

how to practise turret gunnery at low cost

Taj Mahal

real stalag luft 3 before the great escape

please, wash my plane...

Mydway revival

byeeeeeeeeee marcel

 

[Vcruiser]

Great pics,Marcel!
Thanks
Van

 

[Andrew]

Interesting shots Marcel. Couple of questions (sorry if they all sound sceptical!);
- the top two, are they both period shots? The top one looks very contemporary, perhaps a recent shot been photoshopped?
- the Lanc pic, is that in a Museum? The guys looks a little like a dummy- couple of things of interest- he has a large patched repair to his left shoulder and he appears to be sitting on either a heating or comms cable.
- Love the A-2 pics, always enjoy them in colour.

What are the sources for all these?

 

[greyhound52]

Look at the first picture of the guy wearing an A2 he has dogtags on both eps.

 

[Anonymous]

I like the way you use dogtags for zipper pulls grehound. I wonder if crewmen use to do that also? Sure looks better than those aero fake bomb tags.

 

[better duck]

Interesting shots Marcel. Couple of questions (sorry if they all sound sceptical!);
- the top two, are they both period shots? The top one looks very contemporary, perhaps a recent shot been photoshopped?

The first thought that came to my mind when I saw the bomb dropping Marauder was "plastic model kit": look at the cockpit windows, the lines of rivits (or what are they called on an aircraft): they all look to thick / out of proportion to me. However: if this is a Photoshop job, it is a good one!
The tailgunner in the Lanc is obviously a museum display, but still goes to show, that there was no room in the turret, once the doors were closed (and they had to be in order for the turret to turn) for the parachute of the tailgunner. If he had to leave the plane in a hurry, he had to turn back the turret first, open the doors, reach for his parachute that was hanging in in the tail (you see it in the photo, left side), clip it on, and than crawl to the door further up front in the fusulage. Not a nice prospect ...

 

[dujardin]

Interesting shots Marcel. Couple of questions (sorry if they all sound sceptical!);
- the top two, are they both period shots? The top one looks very contemporary, perhaps a recent shot been photoshopped?
- the Lanc pic, is that in a Museum? The guys looks a little like a dummy- couple of things of interest- he has a large patched repair to his left shoulder and he appears to be sitting on either a heating or comms cable.
- Love the A-2 pics, always enjoy them in colour.

What are the sources for all these?

the first one, i don't remember, it's already a long time i have her in a file. but if i remember well it's a PC art picture for a game but i found her so good that i decide to copy.
the second one is a real one , she came from 320thbg.org.
the most of other photos are also from the 320th....
the one with the Lancaster tail gunner came from a french site named ''ciel de gloire'' and relate the story of the guy who prefer to jumps without his parachute in place than finish burned and who survive to his fall.
the one in Taj Mahal came from the official site of or AVG or CBI (i don't remember).
the whashing airplane came from the US war photo official site.

so exept the first one, they are all real, sorry for your septicism.

friendly your's byeeee marcel

 

[Andrew]

what about stalag III- looks a bit staged like "Home Beautiful" Just joking, i'll show that to my ex StIII inmate friend for comment.

He did tell me that the Red Cross gave them skates and some of them used to use them when the pond of water intended for firefighting froze in winter.

 

[greyhound52]

I like the way you use dogtags for zipper pulls grehound. I wonder if crewmen use to do that also? Sure looks better than those aero fake bomb tags.

Yes have seen that on some jackets using the dogtags. I agree on the aero bomb tags they are too heavy.

 

[better duck]

(...) but if i remember well it's a PC art picture for a game but i found her so good that i decide to copy. (...) marcel

Ah I thought so! Looking once again at that photo, there seems to me something fishy with the way the bombs drop from the plane: some seem ahead of the plane, some seem to have moved sideways, both, as we know, a physical impossibility until the arrival of JDAM (at least as far as sideways motion is concerned) Thanks anyway Marcel!

 

[T-Bolt]

Marcel.....

Thanks a lot for posting that selection of photos. That one of the grainy A-2 is pretty interesting.....the horsehide is a little too mismatched for my likes, but it show they definitely used what they had on hand, at the factories.


Ted

 

[Anonymous]

Look at the engine nacelles closely, to shiny and blurry at the same time, can't explain in better detail, also the picture in general is to crisp, for a color picture from WW2.

 

[EMBLEMHUNTER]

The 320th Bomb Group crewman is wearing the 444th Bomb squadron patch,one of two variations I've seen