Battle Damaged Aircraft of WW2

[B-17engineer]

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[Pong]

Wow, that's amazing! I wonder how the pilot managed to land that 190 with the wingtip torn off.

 

[GrauGeist]

Wow, that's amazing! I wonder how the pilot managed to land that 190 with the wingtip torn off.

Carefully

 

[Airframes]

And with a rather large laundry bill.....

 

[vikingBerserker]

LMAO

 

[drgondog]

my father brought this one home. 37/40mm flak hit while strafing. snap rol on deck and recover. March 22, 1945

 

[vikingBerserker]

A friend sent me this.

The nose was blown off by an German 88mm Flak gun killing the navigator and bombardier instantly. Supposedly the pilot managed to fly it until over friendly territory where the crew bailed out.

 

[Airframes]

Holy Moly Bill! That must have been an interesting return trip! Great pics - now found my subject for my next P51D model !
Interesting pic VB, another 'nose job' which wasn't at all welcomed.

 

[drgondog]

Holy Moly Bill! That must have been an interesting return trip! Great pics - now found my subject for my next P51D model !
Interesting pic VB, another 'nose job' which wasn't at all welcomed.

Here is the 'before' pic taken about a week earlier. Red cowl and rudder, white spinner

 

[B-17engineer]

Drgondog, Congrat to your dad, nice flying job.

 

[B-17engineer]

Here are a few. The drawing is of the B-17, aw shoot what's it's name... anyways an 88mm shell hit it killing the radio operator. It landed at a P-47 base somewhere in England and the pilot couldn't use the break for obvious reasons of the plane breaking in half. (He must've used flaps or something...)

EDIT: It's name was Miss Irish.

 

[Flyboy2]

Real life picture of Miss Irish

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks, I have been looking for one!

 

[Flyboy2]

Anytime, check out this website, Battle-Damaged B-17 Flying Fortresses: Fuselage hits - Page 2 scroll down a little and there are two more pictures, I just couldn't figure out how to post them

 

[Pong]

Here ya go. Got this from the 100th BG site.

 

[Flyboy2]

Ah perfect! Thank's Pong

 

[Pong]

No prob.

Here is 100th BG B-17 "Fletcher Castoria" which went down in Holland on October 23 1944.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Ouch! Great pics!

 

[B-17engineer]

It looks like the landing was controlled though but thanks Pong and Flyboy2!

 

[Flyboy2]

Here's some more good ones

And this one is pretty crazy especially since they landed it in one piece, of course it was a write off, but i'm not sure if they had any casulates, i don't think they did