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[Lucky13]

 

[taktik]

Bf 109F-6

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Wayne Little]

great pics, judging by the familiar layout, which German magazine are they from? Jet and Prop?

 

[taktik]

Yes, Jet Prop Foto Archiv.

 

[Wayne Little]

cheers mate!

 

[taktik]

continue if you don't mind

 

[Lucky13]

Awesome stuff mate, awesome!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very interesting, I've never seen the arrows pointing up or down.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

I'll second that...

 

[Wurger]

Brewster Buffalo MkI RAAF 25Sqn A51 13 Perth Australia 1942

 

[Lucky13]

Had to hit the brakes because of the duck with family, were crossing the field....

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Very interesting, I've never seen the arrows pointing up or down.

Air and ground kills David.

 

[Airframes]

Arrows? I haven't even seen the Indians ! (I've got me coat).
Some great pics here.

 

[Lucky13]

Just follow arrows to the EMERGENCY EXIT old boy....

Can't believe that this thread, will be 6 years in December this year!!

Started it on 24/12/08...

 

[Lucky13]

Right, the first from my Lancaster book, R5513;

R5513 No. 97 Squadron; OF-P; 1) Augsburg, 17/04/42, daylight mission (Missing, aircraft shot down by flak over target. Crew: W/O T. J. Mycock DFC, Sgt N. C. Hayes, W/O L. Harrison, Sgt S. E. Eases, Sgt D. Mcdonald, Sgt W. Shelley, Sgt J. Donoghue).

Avro Lancaster Mk. I

Second production batch of 200 aircraft ordered from A. V. Roe Co., Ltd., as part of Contract No. B69274/40 under Works Order No. 7671, Newton Heath, Manchester. R5482-R5517, R5537-R5576, R5603-R5640, R5658-R5703 and R5724-R5763. Deliveries commenced 02/42, completed 07/42 (average rate of production, 10 aircraft per week). Many aircraft, surviving in 1943, had their Merlin XX engines replaced by Merlin XXII's.

 

[fubar57]

Air and ground kills David.

Did the Luftwaffe include ground kills in the pilots totals? I thought it was just the Eighth A.F..

Geo

 

[Lucky13]

W4113 No. 49 Squadron; 1) Düsseldorf, 15-16/08/42; 2) Osnabrück, 17-18/08/42; 3) Flensburg, 18-19/08/42; 4) Gardening, Bornholm, 20-21/08/42; 5) Kassel, 27-28/08/42; 6) Saarbrücken, 01-02/09/42; 7) Duisburg, 06-07/09/42; 8.) Frankfurt, 08-09/09/42; 9) Bremen, 13-14/09/42; 10) Wilhelmshaven, 14-15/09/42; 11) Gardening, Kattegatt, 18-19/09/42; 12) Wismar, 01-02/10/42; 13) Aachen, 05-06/10/42; 14) Wismar, 12-13/10/42; 15) Kiel, 13-14/10/42; 16) Cologne, 15-16/10/42; 17) Genoa, 22-23/10/42; 18.) Genoa, 07-08/11/42; 19) Hamburg, 09/10/11/42; 20) Genoa, 15-16/11/42; 21) Stuttgart, 22-23/11/42; 22) Turin, 28-29/11/42; 23) Mannheim, 06-07/12/42, 24) 20-21/12/42. No. 156 Squadron.: a) Nuremburg, 25-26/02/43. No. 1661 CU; GP-J No. 5 Lancaster Finishing School. No. 1668 CU. Became Ground Instruction Machine, 4969M, 12/44.

Avro Lancaster Mk. I

Third production batch of 207 aircraft ordered from A. V. Roe Co., Ltd., as part of Contract No. B69274/40 (as extended) under Works Order No. 7671, W4102-W4140, W4154-W4201, W4230-4279, W4301-W4340 and W4355-W4384. Deliveries commenced 07/42, completed 11/42 (average rate of production, approximately 13 aircraft per week). Merlin XX and XXII engines. Original Contract covered 453 aircraft in this batch but 243 were cancelled (W4385-W4900, W4414-4463, W4481-W4524, W4537-W4385, W4600-W4641 and W4655-W4700).