Random Cool Photo Thread

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Is it a period photo? Looks new to me. Or at least modified/altered/edited

Yes, it’s colored afterwards.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[leper-colony]

 

[Pa12]

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Pretty amazing

 

[B-Man2]

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There used to be a thread with photos like this called “And Yet they still made it back”
Can’t find it now but it was full of photos like this .

 

[OperationCoffee]

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Take a 12 gauge to a beer can and this is what you get. Hope the guys made it out.

 

[B-Man2]

Hah!!!
Found the thread …
Check this stuff out !!

And Somehow............They Still Flew On.......

I've always been amazed at the battle damage WWII aircraft sustained in combat, and yet somehow still managed to stay aloft ( mostly due to the skills of the aircraft crews) and return home with their crews. I've been thinking about starting this thread for a while and thought that if everyone...

www.vintageleatherjackets.org

 

[YoungMedic]

B-17 94th Bomb Group and 96th Bomb Group on display at the Eiffel Tower, 1945
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The top B-17 does not appear to have armaments poking out, is missing the top turret and looks to have observation windows where the radio operator would sit. Anyone have any info on the particulars of this aircraft?

 

[B-Man2]

Tim
My thought on this
1. There was a top secret program where they stripped old dilapidated B-17s of every thing that was salvageable and then stuck a radio receiver in the aircraft attached to the auto pilot . They would load it with explosives and then a pilot would take it off and then bail out over friendly territory. The second plane would have a controller pilot who would remotely fly the flying bomb into the target kamikaze style .

 

[FlakMagnet]

"Subject: ITALY: BOMBS & BOMB LOADING
Coloring Eggs That Will Go To Hitler. Sgt. Herbert C. Wise of Bedford, Ky., left, and MSgt. Tully D. Carr of Paul, Idaho, ordnance men of a MAAF B-24 gp., set to work with paint and brush to design "Easter Specials" out of blockbusters."

Source

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

IJN pilot Tanaka Sanno, he was introducing, how he was escaped pursuing from 6 American hellcats. He was a recon pilot （C6N1）

 

[Micawber]

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That's a RADAR equipped "Mickey" ship - note the guy strategically standing in front of the H2S dome which replaced the balls turret.

 

[Pilot]

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My next flights… only with Boeing… they are unbreakable..

 

[Micawber]

Tim
My thought on this
1. There was a top secret program where they stripped old dilapidated B-17s of every thing that was salvageable and then stuck a radio receiver in the aircraft attached to the auto pilot . They would load it with explosives and then a pilot would take it off and then bail out over friendly territory. The second plane would have a controller pilot who would remotely fly the flying bomb into the target kamikaze style .

Burt, you are thinking about the "Aphrodite" project that was based at RAF Fersfield literally a stones throw from where I live. "Aphrodite" was the USAAF project using stripped out and war weary B-17's and "Anvil" the USN led project that used a new B-24 packed with explosives.*

*Re: "Anvil". Joe Kennedy and Wilford Willy were killed when their plane blew up en route to target.

More here.

 

[Micawber]

B-17 94th Bomb Group and 96th Bomb Group on display at the Eiffel Tower, 1945
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94th Bomb Group and the 96th Bomb Group B-17's on display at the Eiffel Tower, August - September 1945 so a post war image of part of a display of aircraft under and around the tower area. During the late stages of the war armaments were gradually removed from some '17's as the threat from Luftwaffe attacks decreased.

Also, just after the war one or two units took part in aerial photographic surveys of Europe.

96th a/c was called "Duration Plus"

94th a/c was "Eagles Wrath"

More here Paris air exposition

 

[Micawber]

 

[Micawber]

 

[Pa12]

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I want one

 

[FlakMagnet]

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When you realise these suits were asbestos lined..

 

[FlakMagnet]