Battle Damaged Aircraft of WW2

[gepp]

looks like this took a few good hits and the guys are stripping it down for parts.

 

[Airframes]

That's an R.A.F. Liberator which was hit by a bomb dropped from another B24 in the formation above it, I believe over Italy. Not sure, but I think it was repaired and put back into service.

 

[Pong]

Great pic gepp. And that is a really big hole on the left side of the fuselage.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Nice pic!

 

[gepp]

That's an R.A.F. Liberator which was hit by a bomb dropped from another B24 in the formation above it, I believe over Italy. Not sure, but I think it was repaired and put back into service.

thanks for the info Airframes that would be one hell of a repair job.

 

[Airframes]

Sure would! But apparently the major damage was only to the top turret and the structure around it. Somewher, I've got a pic from above, of the same aircraft, with the bombs on the way down, before one of them hit the Lib and bounced off. If I can find it, I'll post it here.

 

[gepp]

is that the pic that is taken in 3 stages? if it is i got that

 

[Airframes]

That's the one! A set of vertical shots from the strike camera.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Was the gunner in the turret?

 

[Airframes]

Don't think so. All captions I've seen in various books state that no one was hurt, and the aircraft returned to base safely.

 

[piet]

fw190

 

[beaupower32]

Cool pictures, havent seen them before.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

WOW!!!! I'm with Beau. They are cool, I haven't seen them before either. Great post Piet, thank you for sharing those with us.

 

[syscom3]

i stuffed the post up my bad 2nd time lucky.
not too sure about the spit ( Battle Damaged)

The B24 had a tragic story about it. The mission was for a "milk run" mission and the crew was made up of veteran airman that were going to make their final mission. And as fate had it for them that day, the only 88mm AA battery defending the target hits them.

 

[beaupower32]

The B24 had a tragic story about it. The mission was for a "milk run" mission and the crew was made up of veteran airman that were going to make their final mission. And as fate had it for them that day, the only 88mm AA battery defending the target hits them.

Wow, talking about getting the short end of the stick. Last mission, and they get nailed.

 

[BC1]

Wow - some excellent (new) pictures there guys !

Have been researching BD incident pictures for a few months now.

Saw your site on TOCH and joined on the strength of this thread.

A couple to keep the thread going:

Don't think either have been featured before. I have some info on the Wimpy (Wellington) but not on the B-25, so any feedback from forum readers would be great.

Looking forward to contributing as and when...

Regards,

BC

 

[gepp]

great pics the Fw-190 never seen that pic

 

[pbfoot]

Wow - some excellent (new) pictures there guys !

Have been researching BD incident pictures for a few months now.

Saw your site on TOCH and joined on the strength of this thread.

A couple to keep the thread going:

Don't think either have been featured before. I have some info on the Wimpy (Wellington) but not on the B-25, so any feedback from forum readers would be great.

Looking forward to contributing as and when...

Regards,

BC

The Wellington maybe a 419 bird I just saw a pic of it in a library book I just returned

 

[piet]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Great pics!