Picture of the day.

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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.

 
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.
 
? 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.
 
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?
 

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