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I wonder what these were used for? The process of unloading an AE1 "Cub" from the fuselage of the transport Curtiss C-46. Air base on Peleliu island, 1944.

 

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A very high price was paid.

Sometimes the flak was accurate, sometimes it was not. The flak gunners had it just right on 13 January 1945 when the 303rd Bomb Group was given a rail bridge at Mannheim to destroy. The weather was clear and cold and the radar prediction was precise, for the flak salvos brought down three, severely damaged fourteen and caused minor damage to seven of the 38 B-17s involved. The losses were all from the 427th Bomb Squadron formation. 2/Lt O.T. Eisenhart's 338689/GN:A took a direct hit in the tail and plummeted earthwards. No one escaped, probably held by the gravitational forces of the rapid descent. The lead plane of a higher squadron caught the plunge with its strike camera. Over 900 bombers were out that day and only four others were lost.

 

[tyrodtom]

I wonder what these were used for? The process of unloading an AE1 "Cub" from the fuselage of the transport Curtiss C-46. Air base on Peleliu island, 1944.

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Medical evacuation, see those lines above the red cross, that's a hatch that gives access to put in a stretcher.

 

[syscom3]

A very high price was paid.

Sometimes the flak was accurate, sometimes it was not. The flak gunners had it just right on 13 January 1945 when the 303rd Bomb Group was given a rail bridge at Mannheim to destroy. The weather was clear and cold and the radar prediction was precise, for the flak salvos brought down three, severely damaged fourteen and caused minor damage to seven of the 38 B-17s involved. The losses were all from the 427th Bomb Squadron formation. 2/Lt O.T. Eisenhart's 338689/GN:A took a direct hit in the tail and plummeted earthwards. No one escaped, probably held by the gravitational forces of the rapid descent. The lead plane of a higher squadron caught the plunge with its strike camera. Over 900 bombers were out that day and only four others were lost.

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Delivered Fairfield 4/9/44; Hunter 25/9/44; Grenier 3/10/44; Assigned 601BS/398BG Nuthampstead 11/10/44; transferred 427BS/303BG [GN-A] Molesworth 28/10/44; Missing in Action Germersheim 13/1/45 with pilot 2Lt Oliver T Eisenhart, copilot 2Lt Henry McCullough, Navigator 2Lt Maurice Merrick, Bombardier F/O Herring Joyce, Flight Eng S/Sgt Sam Hindman, Radio Sgt Bernie Kaufmann, Ball turret Sgt Bill Kimber, Waist gun Sgt Jack Thompson, Tail gun Sgt Therman Conaway (9 Killed in Action); direct flak hit in the tail, crashed Roxheim, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11574.


Failed to Return (FTR) mission to bomb railroad bridge at Mannheim. Took a direct hit in the tail and plummeted earthwards. No crew escaped, probably held by the gravitational forces of the rapid descent. The lead plane of a higher squadron caught the plunge with its strike camera. Crashed Roxheim, Germany. 9 x KIA. MACR 11574.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

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WWII US GI Photo - ID'd 611th Graves GIs Goofing Off w/ Assenhausen ? Sign #2 | eBay

 

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IJA China [Wiki]

 

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384th Bomb Group B-17 Bombers in Flight Heading Towards Target

 

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Captain Fumisuke Shono's Kawasaki Ki-61-I Hei "Hien" fighter of the 244th Sentai over Tokyo Bay in February of 1945. This variant of the Hien known as the Hei model carried 2x wing mounted German made 20mm Mg151/20 cannons and 2x 12.7mm Ho-103 machine guns in the fuselage .
World War in Color

 

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IJA China [Wiki]

Where did you say this restaurant was?

 

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... stay tuned

 

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Nomonhan, 1939

 

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Honor guard for Major Rudels 2000th mission. June 1 1944.

 

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B-17 44-6147 JD-U 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron England 1944.
On 10 June 1944; during assembly for Leipzig, a mid air collision with 42-102442; crashed at Withersfield, near Haverhill, Suffolk, UK. 6KIA.

 

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