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[Snautzer01]

Are the markings on the nose for missions or the number of food poisoning cases?

Thats for how many take a ways they had ordered at Chongs.

 

[yulzari]

P-47 Thunderbolt over Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France.

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I occupied exactly that piece of air space when I was learning to fly at Jersey when I was 17.

 

[Андрей]

Now, is this the original, or the posed image for propaganda purposes taken the day after? Note that the photographer is in as precarious a position as the flag bearer.

Everyone knows it's computer graphics

 

[Андрей]

Heard over the tannoy... "Take a long look, ladies and gentlemen, these are Groundhog airplanes under construction here at Bell Aircraft. The front ones are Aira Groundhogs and the back ones are King Groundhogs. Next stop, the Soviet Union!"



"Aaah, can someone lend me a pen? I think I see a spot under the tailplane..."

You are 80 years too late

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

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Looks like Mt. Vesuvius.

 

[syscom3]

B-17G-50-BO "LITTLE KENNY" SO+O 42-102459, Dropping Bombs 384 Bomb Group 547 Bomb Squadron

 

[syscom3]

B-17G-50-BO "LITTLE KENNY" SO+O 42-102459, . Hit twice by flak, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress flew all the way back from Germany in spite of a useless rudder and extensive damage to the entire tail assembly, as well as less obvious damage to nose and wing. The pilot, 2nd Lt. Verlin D. Reed, and the co-pilot, 2nd Lt. Howard K. Johnson, both from Boswell, Ind., did not budge the plane from formation. One piece of flak had gone through the left horizontal stabilizer and exploded against the vertical stabilizer, while another was exploding in the nose.

This incident happened on January 22, 1945. The tail gunner Ernest J. Gariepy was wounded.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

Now, is this the original, or the posed image for propaganda purposes taken the day after? Note that the photographer is in as precarious a position as the flag bearer.

Everyone knows it's computer graphics

? No, not all. Could you be so kind to explain?

 

[Андрей]

? No, not all. Could you be so kind to explain?

That's sarcasm.
You do not need to be an academic to understand that the photo is staged, especially since there is information about this photo on wikipedia.
The Russians have a saying: "If he kept quiet, everyone would think he was smart."

 

[SaparotRob]

I was told by a Russian emigre that that photo was a reenactment. This was because of too much live ammo wizzing about when the flag was originally raised to photograph.

 

[Snautzer01]

? No, not all. Could you be so kind to explain?

This picture is not a computer graphic. Staged yes, most certainly. But not a computer graphic. This picture has been around way before pc i think. So you do not have to be an acedemic. Nor a sarcast or russian . Just being around wiil do the trick sometimes.

See post 19912

Edit. The famous iwo jima picture was staged. It happened but was done over. Still no computer was involved.

 

[Greg Boeser]

The Rosenthal photo wasn't staged. It was photographed during the second, larger, flag raising.
Two separate events. The second raising got a lot more publicity because Rosenthal's photo turned out so good.

 

[Snautzer01]

Second raising you said. Now how would that have happened? Guys... just let us do this flag raising again for no apperant reason? And with a bigger flag that we forgot all about the first time. Ohh and hey do not notice that guy with a camera. Something like that?