Battle Damaged Aircraft of WW2

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

15th Allied Air Division base U.S. pilots watching a Liberator B-24 bomber

 

[Wurger]

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[johnbr]

Both are b-26

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Ouch

 

[GrauGeist]

That damaged Marauder is a B-26B-1-MA (41-17747) "Earthquake McGoon" of the 37th BS, 17th BG of the 12th AF, hit by flak on 23 March 1943 during a bombing mission against La Smala airbase in Tunesia. It's pilot was 1Lt. Bedford, based out of Telergma, Algeria and made it back to base, where due to it's extensive damage, bellied in. Despite the engine nacelle being blown away, causing complete loss of hydraulics, only the bombadier, 2Lt. Means, was injured.

Here's another view of it:

 

[Milosh]

B-17G-20-VE Flying Fortress code VK-K 42-97622 "Paper Dollie" of the 303rd Bomb Group, 358th BS, crashlanded 23 July 1944

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More info on the a/c and crew, http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/210.pdf

 

[Wurger]

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Wayne Little]

Great shots...

 

[Gastounet]

I do not remember if all those photos are not already in this site

 

[Wurger]

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Wurger]

Bf-110G, Russia, 1943....

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[johnbr]

During the night of July 11, 1943 (Husky II) 144 C-47s and C-35s took off from airfields in Tunisia. The planes flew to southern Sicily, passing Malta. Then they approached the invasion fleet lying offshore. During the day the fleet was under constant attack by the German Luftwaffe (Airforce), the ships were bombed and strafed. Ships were hit and sunk, German planes were shot down. Just some 20 minutes after the last German plane had cleared the sky (others state that the Luftwaffe was still around) the first C-47s came over. The first planes passed unharmed, but then someone opened up, more and more anti-aircraft gunners both on land and on the ships opened up, it became a tragedy. Many young Americans were killed by American gunfire.

 

[Wurger]

However the damages dont't look like the flak hit. I would say it's because of an air collision.