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Hope you guys don't mind but I like posting the relatively rare stuff. A little off the "WIX" theme but seeing as it's still very much D-Day themed here lately. This batch of photos are not usually seen and show some interesting details. Unfortunately I have no information to post with them, but I'm sure they explain themselves.

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13th Squadron's F-5s & Spitfire MK XIs of the 14th Squadron Mount Farm, UK 1944.

This next batch of photos shows aerial views of Juno Beach and vicinity June 12, 1944 taken by a Spitfire recon pilot.


American Spitfire MK XI MB956 of the 14th Squadron, 7th Photo Group, Mount Farm, UK 1944.




















ALG B3 (Advanced Landing Ground) Sainte Croix sur Mer June 12, 1944


The aircraft at this forward Normandy field may have included Spitfire MK IXs, Photo recce Mustangs and Typhoons

I can post a bunch more ... unless you guys are burned out by now.

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I love the P-38 recon photos. I saw one once that showed an F-5 right down on the deck flying down the beaches prior to the invasion. The photo captured the F-5s shadow, he could not have been any higher than 75ft.


Chappie

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Corpsmen of the 90th US Infantry Division approach a captured German Sd.Kfz 251 belonging to 2.Panzer Division




B-17 452nd Bomb Group June 1944


Bomb Loaded P-47 "Arkansas Traveler" Of The 353Rd Fighter Group




Generals Eisenhower and Bradley sharing a laugh in a Normandy orchard sometime after Operation Overlord 1944

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Mark, you have out done yourself. The D Day photos are fantastic.

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Thx Pat

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Love the shot of the Invasion stripes being added to the Spitfire. That is exactly how D-Day stripes to look on today's warbirds!!

Chappie

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That was something I noticed on the Typhoon pictures posted in another thread. The stripes on the gear doors are crisp, and I bet they line up with the wing stripes perfectly. I doubt many bothered with the gear doors at all, and pretty sure they wouldn't even be close if they did.

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.

For once I had 100% of the images archived!
All have been restored.

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Thanks Scott. Great stuff.

The tank shot with the doll on the post was creepy. Sort of brings the focus of the Civilian casualties to light.

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Agree! I can't imagine rebuilding my town after devastation like that.

I'm pleased to see the photo of a 452nd Bomb Group (Square L) B-17. My father flew 32 missions (including D-Day) with that group in 1944, and published pictures of them seem quite rare. Who knows, maybe he's looking out the waist window in that photo.