Pearl Harbor 1945 - images - fancy aircraft recognition ?

Swiss Mustangs · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:29 am

hi folks

while trawling the LIFE collection, I found these two aerial photos of Pearl Harbor in 1945.....

quite some hardware on the field....

how many types do you count/recognize ?

have fun !

cordially
Martin

Ztex · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:35 am

104 TBM's
98 SB2C's
14 SBD's
3 F4U's

Do I get a pony?

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:09 pm

ztex.... you must have some time on your hands.... come shovel my driveway of snow when finished counting warbirds. actually, i admire your taking the trouble to count them!!

Llarry · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:54 pm

At the end of the WW2, there were any number of Pacific islands just covered with military aircraft.

My Dad told me a story of Saipan in 1946. Huge numbers of factory near-new FM-2 Wildcats being placed on barges and dumped in the ocean. He was VF-19's maintenance officer and the F8F-1 Bearcat used the same or similar tailwheel as the FM-2. VF-19 had a shortage of tailwheels and wanted to strip some off the Wildcats before they took their trip to the deep six. Nope -- not allowed: each Wildcat must be dumped intact.

noizeedave · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:03 pm

So it seems like its fishing time! So where around Saipan can we all find this dump site?

You think those deep sea WWII wiver teams on TV would try to find those sites to photgraph.

Ztex · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:40 pm

tom d. friedman wrote:

ztex.... you must have some time on your hands.... come shovel my driveway of snow when finished counting warbirds. actually, i admire your taking the trouble to count them!!

Well..( SNOW?? ) .It's a slow time of the year at work...I was terribly bored. Plus I need a new pony...or a Mustang picture..

hehe :wink:

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