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WWII Bombers Two USAF Boeing B-17-B bombers in flight circa 1941 B-17 Flying Fortress USAAF bomber | World War Photos
Battle Damaged Aircraft of WW2
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johnbr
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Flak damaged Boeing B-17G 44-8811 of the 398th BG, 600th Bomb Squadron, April 1945
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21 December 1944 – lt Henehan of the 346th FS, 350th Fighter Group stands in the hole in his P-47 left wing
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P/O Stanislaw Blok 315 Sqn (Polish) with his damaged Spitfire.
Hit during a dog fight on circus 238 feb 1943
Hit during a dog fight on circus 238 feb 1943
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USS Arizona
he other two turrets have interesting histories.
Turret 2 was not completely salvaged like turrets 3 and 4. Only the turret roof and guns were removed, and the side armor remains just barely above the waterline. The three guns were refurbished and placed in the reserve stock. In late 1944, Nevada had just returned from fire missions off Normandy and Southern France and needed her guns relined. The standard process was to replace the guns outright, relined the old guns, and install them on the next ship, so Nevada's Turret 1 recieved Arizona's guns. She used these to great effect off Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and had Operation Downfall gone forward she would have used them on the beaches of Kyushu.
Turret 1 is also rather odd. If Arizona lay intact on the bottom, Turret 1's barbette would be as high out of the water as the barbette of Turret 3 is today, the highest point on the wreck. The explosion was so powerful that today it can't be seen from the surface. When the National Park Service took over the wreck, the Navy told them all 12 guns had been removed. It was quite a shock when divers found Turret 1 and its 3 guns intact on the wreck!
Removal and salvage efforts of Turrets
he other two turrets have interesting histories.
Turret 2 was not completely salvaged like turrets 3 and 4. Only the turret roof and guns were removed, and the side armor remains just barely above the waterline. The three guns were refurbished and placed in the reserve stock. In late 1944, Nevada had just returned from fire missions off Normandy and Southern France and needed her guns relined. The standard process was to replace the guns outright, relined the old guns, and install them on the next ship, so Nevada's Turret 1 recieved Arizona's guns. She used these to great effect off Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and had Operation Downfall gone forward she would have used them on the beaches of Kyushu.
Turret 1 is also rather odd. If Arizona lay intact on the bottom, Turret 1's barbette would be as high out of the water as the barbette of Turret 3 is today, the highest point on the wreck. The explosion was so powerful that today it can't be seen from the surface. When the National Park Service took over the wreck, the Navy told them all 12 guns had been removed. It was quite a shock when divers found Turret 1 and its 3 guns intact on the wreck!
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sorry
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Old Wizard
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Interesting stuff!
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buffnut453
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Hope the poor bloody tail gunner didn't feel anything.
Actually I read this was a Heinkel brought down by Swiss 109s.
