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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

B-24J-401-CF #42-50490 "Leevus Bee" Code: #19 (lower right)
B-24G-10-NT #42-78231 "Satan's Girl" Code: #5 (upper left)
450th BG - 721st BS - 15th AF
No photo credit available.

 

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B-24J-5-FO #42-50796 Easy Maid Code: Black Q
464th Bomb Group - 779th Bomb Squadron
No photo credit available.

 

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Sweet Pea nose art, pilot Guy Miller, center.

Crew of B-17 42-38078 'Sweet Pea' pose after their narrow escape on 21-Sep-44.

L-R 2Lt Guy M Miller, 2Lt Thomas M Rybovich, 1Lt Theodore Davich, S/Sgt Robert R Mullen, T/Sgt Gerald E McGuire, Cpl William F Steuck.

This plane received a direct hit by flak over Debreczen rail yards, Hungary, on Sept 21, 1944. The pilot, 2d Lt. Guy M. Miller, of Lakeside, Calif., and Co-pilot, 2d Lt. Thomas M. Rybovich, West Palm Beach, Fla., were able to bring her back to base

Italy - Blasted wide open in the waist section by enemy flak, this 15th AAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress limped home 600 miles and with skillful piloting crash landed without additional injury to the crew.
United States Army Air Corp

 

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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress on a shuttle mission to Russia.

 

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Joseph Jordan, tailgunner, is sitting on top of the turret. This was taken soon after the St. Etienne mission on May 25, 1944, where the aircraft was listed as missing, when they actually had suffered severe damage and diverted to Corsica. The people in the photograph are those that were not lost on this raid. On the back of the photo are the names of the survivors.

"What was left of Bomb Group 9"
Tommy - 2nd Lt. Frederick L. Tompkins, 0-690408, Pilot
Butts - Sgt. Robert O. Butts, Jr., 33553787, Left Waist Gunner
Fram - Sgt. Roger C. Framm, 19206441, Lower Turret
Ray - S/Sgt. Elmer R. Cutsinger, 38200294, Radio Operator
Merkle - Sgt. Carl F. Merkle, 19090034, Right Waist Gunner
Tex (Joe) - Sgt. Joseph A. Jordan, 38341267, Tail Gunner

"Missing"
Fred - 2nd Lt. Fred E. Letz, 0-699203, Navigator (Evaded)
Smitty - 2nd Lt. Paul H. Smith, 0-696292, Bombardier (KIA)
Smokey - S/Sgt. Harold L. Bolick, 39268736, Upper Turret (Evaded)
Rodey - 2nd Lt. Earl E. Rodenburg, 0-700368, Co-Pilot (POW)

No photo credit available.

 

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A P-39 Airacobra (serial number 42-4561) of the 15th Air Force. Image stamped on reverse: 'Passed for publication 10 Mar 1943.' [stamp] and '23193.' [Censor no.]

 

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B-24H-25-CF #42-50395 "Goona's Garbage Wagon"
455th Bomb Group - 741st Bomb Squadron - 15th AF

 

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Ground crew refuel a P-40 of the 7th Fighter Group at Dobadura, New Guinea, 1943.

 

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World War Photos

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It tastes like pee.

 

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[Snautzer01]

1941 Press Photo U.S. Marine paratrooper starts World War II mission on bicycle. | eBay

 

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Grumpy, Dopey, Doc, Happy, Bashful.

+ orig Foto Front Ostfront Finnland Tarn Schnee camo kennung Weiss + | eBay

 

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[syscom3]

Always liked the term "Meat Wagon". First heard it when I was a kid watching Saturday Night Live. They had a fake commercial about a toy slot car set and when one of the cars crashed they had an ambulance come out to take the driver to the hospital...only they called it the meat wagon. Funny. You had to be there I guess...

Yup! I remember seeing that on SNL. I laughed my butt off! I think the slot car that crashed and burned was a Ford Pinto that had gotten rear ended. LOL

 

[syscom3]

A pair of 19th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress at Port Moresby in the fall of 1942.

 

[Capt. Vick]

1941 Press Photo U.S. Marine paratrooper starts World War II mission on bicycle. | eBay

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DC-5!