Dad's WWII Scrapbook sees the light of day

[hawkeye2an]

My dad just rolled this out on me on a recent visit. He is "retired" in Arizona restoring aircraft for the Pima Air Museum. He just found his WWII scrapbook (he was a young teen during the war years) at the bottom of a box and gave it to me. The clips are all from local newspapers, The St Joe News-Press and Gazette or The Kansas City Star and Times (in those days there were morning AND evening papers). Thought I'd share a few of these with you and if you enjoy them I'll keep adding more from time to time.

First pic I would like any further info if it's out there as it was payed for by school children from my hometown of St Joseph, MO and I plan on building it in 1/48th.

The second clip I found interesting as I didn't realise we had 109s on display to the public as early as 1942-43.

The third has been on this forum before, but I hadn't seen any caption with it.

 

[vikingBerserker]

That's fricken awesome!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Great material Hawkeye!! Thank you for sharing sir.

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Terriffic! Can't wait to see what else might be in the box.

 

[Airframes]

Fantastic stuff Hawk ! Definitely like to see more. The second pic, with the '109, is interesting, as it seems to be a similar collection of aircraft posted elsewhere on the forum very recently, I think the pics in question being taken at la Guardia in that instance. looks like they were doing a tour of the 'States.

 

[hawkeye2an]

Here's the next batch.

Kaiser teamed with Howard Hughes and this plane became the "Spruce Goose"

 

[Gnomey]

Great stuff!

 

[hawkeye2an]

Next batch

 

[Vassili Zaitzev]

Excellent stuff, thank you for sharing.

 

[evangilder]

That's quite a collection of clippings. Neat stuff!

 

[skeeter]

Super archival post. The reason why I come here is to see the stuff you're not going to see anywhere else! Good job.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Again Hawk, very interesting material. Thank you for sharing this.

 

[hawkeye2an]

I like the third pic's caption. Just taking their bomb out for a 'ride'.

Also noticed how heavily retouched the last pic is.

 

[Njaco]

Great pics and clippings!

I'm gonna say that Bf 109 'Emil' is probably ex-battle of Britain - many of them that were shot down intact were used as fund-raisers in Britain and the US.

Love the 'super-duper' P-38!

 

[hawkeye2an]

I'm gonna say that Bf 109 'Emil' is probably ex-battle of Britain - many of them that were shot down intact were used as fund-raisers in Britain and the US.

Thanks for the info

Keep looking, I've ONLY got 60 or 70 more !!!

 

[hawkeye2an]

Next up

 

[B-17engineer]

Loving the JU-88

 

[Snautzer01]

The second clip I found interesting as I didn't realise we had 109s on display to the public as early as 1942-43.

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the Me109 in the same exhibition also on this board. Funny how those things cross

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aircraft-pictures/messerschmidt-109-raf-ae479-pics-24400.html

great clippings, keep them coming

 

[magnu]

Excellent stuff, keep them coming

 

[hawkeye2an]

the Me109 in the same exhibition also on this board. Funny how those things cross

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aircraft-pictures/messerschmidt-109-raf-ae479-pics-24400.html

great clippings, keep them coming

Thanks, that really helps flesh out the clipping.

As usual these GREAT forum members added a wealth of information on those photos as well.