Down In Flames

[Matt308]

Can't remember if this was already posted or not. Looks like it has been burning for a while. That must have been pure hell.

 

[GrauGeist]

Hopefully no duplicates in this bunch...

A-20 Havoc, 9th AF hit by flak over France. Note the rudder debris behind the aircraft, seen between the fuselage and the starboard engine. The plane plunged to earth just after this photo was taken.

Lancater suffered a direct hit by flak.

B-24 inverted after losing the outer section of it's port wing.

B-24 hit by flak. Note the fuel bladder protruding from the port wing.

B-24 (Little Warrior) hit by flak. Photo taken from the (Green Hornet) as Little Warrior nosing up and over.
(This is not the original photo, the original shows the actual attitude of the striken B-24. You can just barely see the horizon beneath the B-24's nose, appearing as a faint diagonal line)

8th AF B-17 devestated by falling bombs.

 

[syscom3]

Ive never seen the first two photo's. Wow! Thanks for posting them!!

 

[Grampa]

Here a picture of a S32C Lansen from spring 1967. Just when it taking off from Skavsta field (F11) a turbine wheel from the rotor shaft came off from the engine and cut out the fuselage while it devastated the rudder cables to the tailrudder and the aircraft became unkontrolled. The aircraft crashed after 5 sec. into the runway extension and whent foward to nearly ramming a farmer on his tractor. What is unique here is that a cadet with his camera managed to take a picture, just like the turbine wheel cuts through the fuselage. Both occupants were killed.

 

[Matt308]

Unfortunate. Amazing that a single still was taken at exactly that moment.

 

[Gnomey]

Yep, amazing timing. Really unfortunate ending though.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Dam..................

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Njaco]

I believe these 2 pics are the same aircraft..
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He 115 shot down off Norway 1943
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Fw 200 0f 7./KG40 shot down March 1943
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Hs 126 shot down near Paris 1943
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Ju 90 shot down at Bastia July 1943
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Ju 88 shot down off Norway
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No info on the next 2 pics - Allied bombers
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[Matt308]

Wow that last one is telling. Just imagine the immediate spin to starboard. And looks like the port wing is likely to shear. Jeez.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Those are amazing.

 

[Njaco]

Wow that last one is telling. Just imagine the immediate spin to starboard. And looks like the port wing is likely to shear. Jeez.

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking and the reason why I posted it. It had to spin....

 

[Airframes]

The last one is on the ground. it's just coming to a halt, after crossing a ridged hedgerow.

 

[Wayne Little]

Wow....amazing is the word...

 

[Coyote]

8th AF B-17 devestated by falling bombs.

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This is the B-17 Wee Willie. Credited with 128 missions. She took a direct hit from flak in the wing root over Stendal, Germany, 8 Apr 1945. Several crew survived.

Wee Willie - 91st Bomb Group (H)

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

[Njaco]

 

[GrauGeist]

How these guys had the presence of mind to be photographing in the middle of all that insanity is beyond me :/

 

[Alex .]

This clip is probably the saddest bit of film I've ever watched...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyJAlsJAbZw

 

[Njaco]

 

[Wildcat]

That last shot is great!